Gov. Charlie Crist has signed bills to help Florida National Guard troops and state veterans nursing homes. ...more

June 1, 2009

There is one very simple fix for the economy that, to date, none of the brains in Washington have thought of. It doesn't require any huge stimulus package and doesn't include any free handouts to anyone. ...more

February 14, 2009

The U.S. military in a turbulent province northeast of Baghdad handed over control on Sunday of the Sons of Iraq, a predominantly Sunni group of former insurgents and tribesmen whose revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq significantly boosted security here. ...more

January 5, 2009

Strained by war, recently discharged veterans are having a harder time finding civilian jobs and are more likely to earn lower wages for years partly because of employer concerns about their mental health and overall skills, a government study says. ...more

February 8, 2008

Kipling memorialized the ability of a society to forget about its soldiers once the time of crisis had passed in his poem called "Tommy Atkins." Our country has on occasion shown a similar disregard for the welfare of our veterans as when President Hoover ordered Gen. McArthur to use force to drive a political protest of war veterans out of Washington, D.C. McArthur obliged by driving the marchers out of D.C. with fixed bayonets and ordered the burning of their encampment. Since then we have generally done better for our veterans, a farsighted G.I. Bill after World War II providing educational benefits, which well served the veterans and the nation for a generation. I personally will be forever grateful for the education I received under P.L. 550 at the end of the Korean War, without which I could never have attended college. ...more

October 12, 2007