Iraq, Afghanistan change the face of Veterans Day
Veterans Day in America is traditionally a time to look back, but the new generation of veterans wants to remind people the country also must look forward.
As they return home after more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, younger veterans argue the holiday can’t just be about wreaths on gravestones at national cemeteries, parades or celebrations in the basement at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post. They say Veterans Day must be not only about aged veterans in wheelchairs but about men and women in their 20s and 30s, some of whom returned from combat marked by deep wounds — many of which are invisible. (Summers/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/veterans-day-iraq-afghanistan-99637.html#ixzz2kL4iGOSH