Veterans

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  • Sticker shock over shell shock

    The U.S. government is reviewing 72,000 cases in which veterans have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming that misdiagnosis and fraud have inflated the numbers. Outraged vets say the plan is a callous attempt to cut the costs of an increasingly expensive war.
    By Mark Benjamin August 9, 2005

  • So, who's really hurting the troops?

    If it's "liberals" who want to put U.S. soldiers at greater risk, why is the White House the one underfunding medical care for veterans?
    By Tim Grieve June 24, 2005

  • Dinner is served

    A new Senate bill requires veterans hospitals to stop charging wounded soldiers for meals.
    By Mark Benjamin May 13, 2005

  • Inside "Gunner Palace"

    Soldiers in the new documentary, and Iraq war veterans, discuss how filmmaker Michael Tucker captures the real terror and craziness of their lives and service in Iraq.
    By Mark Follman March 4, 2005

  • "Secretary Rumsfeld and President Bush, you are responsible"

    An open letter from the wife of a soldier who lost his leg in Iraq.
    October 13, 2004

  • "That flag is our flag"

    Veterans, led by war heroes Wesley Clark and Max Cleland, charge out of the trenches in Boston for John Kerry.
    By Tim Grieve July 26, 2004

  • Smear Boat Veterans for Bush

    The "swift boat" veterans attacking John Kerry's war record are led by veteran right-wing operatives using the same vicious techniques they used against John McCain four years ago.
    By Joe Conason May 4, 2004

  • The sappiest generation

    My cantankerous father and my own better judgment won't let me get sentimental about WWII veterans.
    By Sean Elder July 31, 2000

  • Fred's dead. Or is he?

    In Puerto Perdido they're still talking about the double death of Captain Hook, going buggy with machetes and the penalty for unholy hanky-panky.
    By Carlos Amantea March 10, 2000

  • Attack of the holiday gift guides!

    Annual shopping-spree extravaganzas turn otherwise respectable journalists into shills for Santa Mammon.
    By Jenn Shreve November 19, 1999

  • Unarmed and under fire: An oral history of female Vietnam vets

    "All we had was prayer. And I did a lot of that."
    By Austin Bunn November 11, 1999

  • Pentagon points a finger

    Anti-nerve-gas pills may be a culprit, but in general, Gulf War Syndrome is still a mystery.
    By Arthur Allen October 21, 1999

  • Crosses in the field

    A bus tour of Normandy leads to an unforgettable encounter at the American cemetery.
    By Diane R. Molberg May 29, 1999
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