Read more veterans stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/220/veterans.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:24:24 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73809/best-war-movies-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn honor of Veterans Day, the Huffington Post runs down the best war movies of all time: Apocalypse Now: Vietnam War From Here to Eternity: Pearl Harbor Patton: World War II Braveheart: Scotland’s battle for independence Lawrence of Arabia: World War I Band of Brothers: World War II (and, yes,...http://www.newser.com/story/73809/best-war-movies-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 19:29:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73820/nation-marks-veterans-day.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe nation honored its war veterans today at services around the country. President Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington, telling vets and their families that "there is no tribute, no commemoration, no praise that can truly match the magnitude of your service and your...http://www.newser.com/story/73820/nation-marks-veterans-day.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 12:18:42 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73785/lack-of-health-insurance-kills-2k-veterans-a-year.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSome 2,266 US veterans under 65 died last year because they didn't have health insurance, a team from Harvard Medical School estimates. Although most vets get medical care through the VA, there are about a million and a half, under 65, who were not wounded and are "too poor...http://www.newser.com/story/73785/lack-of-health-insurance-kills-2k-veterans-a-year.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 8:16:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71733/injured-vets-seeking-closure-return-to-iraq.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe military has been aiding injured veterans to return to Iraq to help them find closure and assure them that their sacrifices were worth it. Operation Proper Exit—believed to be the first such program to facilitate vets' return to a battlefield while a war is still in progress—has...http://www.newser.com/story/71733/injured-vets-seeking-closure-return-to-iraq.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 4:58:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71221/wwii-gi-returns-looted-16th-century-german-books.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRetired optometrist Robert Thomas handed a pair of books he filched as an 18-year-old GI 64 years ago to the German ambassador in a ceremony at the National Archives this week. Thomas, 83, found the 400-year-old legal volumes stashed among millions of others in a salt mine while inspecting recently...http://www.newser.com/story/71221/wwii-gi-returns-looted-16th-century-german-books.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 3:19:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71103/civilian-contractors-are-the-vietnam-vets-of-our-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThousands of Americans have come home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who are veterans in all but name, writes T. Christian Miller—and the benefits afforded veterans. The military's unprecedented reliance on civilian contractors has left thousands injured and disabled with no safety net or public gratitude. Whether...http://www.newser.com/story/71103/civilian-contractors-are-the-vietnam-vets-of-our-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 7:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70513/war-games-help-vets-cope-with-ptsd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUsing realistic war games to re-create the sights, sounds, and even smells of combat is helping veterans overcome post-traumatic stress disorder in several clinical trials. Games like Virtual Iraq —modeled on Full Spectrum Warrior —help psychologists bring patients back to traumatic events and break down mental barriers. Researchers say the...http://www.newser.com/story/70513/war-games-help-vets-cope-with-ptsd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 9:02:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67756/medicare-is-dead-long-live-medicare-steele.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRNC Chairman Michael Steele continued his simultaneous defense of and onslaught on Medicare today, writes Eric Kleefeld of Talking Points Memo. Dems are “proposing up to $550 billion in cuts or shifting of funds out of Medicare, and I don't know what that means,” Steele said on Fox News. In...http://www.newser.com/story/67756/medicare-is-dead-long-live-medicare-steele.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 14:30:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67157/reenactors-take-on-vietnam-war.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRevolutionary and Civil War reenactments are a familiar sight—but now, one of the most controversial wars in US history is in reruns, the AP reports. Houston, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania have all hosted Vietnam war reenactments. “We do it to honor these guys and to tell them, 'You weren't forgotten,...http://www.newser.com/story/67157/reenactors-take-on-vietnam-war.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 18 Aug 2009 9:49:27 CDT