Veterans advocates riled by report on Army charity ...more

February 23, 2009

An Army reservist will be reinstated in her former job and paid $2,500 under a lawsuit settlement reached Thursday between the U.S. Department of Justice and Hillsborough County Circuit Court Clerk Pat Frank's office. ...more

August 22, 2008

A few weeks ago I handed a diploma to Brian, a young man who worked very hard to finish his degree. He completed most of it online from Iraq in his hospital bed while he recovered from injuries that required nearly 20 surgeries before he could return to Iraq for his second tour. ...more

July 6, 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