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...cuts or their ma'ams and sirs. While unemployment among all veterans was a low 3.8% nationwide in 2006 (vs. 4.4% for the non-veteran population), for the country's newest, youngest and sometimes battle-scarred former service members, finding jobs post-service is proving to be frustrating. Of the 332,000 veterans between age 20 and 24, the unemployment rate was 10.4% in 2006, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (it's 8% among non-veterans of the same age group). Young vets say the military's job-placement programs are well-meaning but often ineffective. They...
...Non-veteran students sometimes resented the long lines at the bookstores caused by the paperwork the veterans needed for repayment under the G.I. Bill...
...could see in every direction were lines stretching out to infinity under a snowfall of veterans' authorization slips," one student wrote in a Crimson op-ed bemoaning his life as a non-veteran. "And you didn't think there were any of them left, did you?" he continued...
...veterans kept to themselves, not out of isolation, but because they shared common experiences--and because they did not fit into the world of their non-veteran classmates...
...problem with Robert McNamara making millions of dollars on his book while, at the same time, countless numbers of men and women have died and suffered lifelong trauma because of his incompetent leadership while serving as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. As a 45-year-old non-veteran it irritates me that McNamara will become even richer by promoting his book while others still suffer with every tick of the clock...