ONE Freedom Announces a New Website Designed to Provide Education and Healing to America’s Service Members, Veterans, Families and Care Providers
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COLORADO—November 11, 2008—Incoming President Obama has called for both citizens and communities to step up and address the many issues facing America. One of those issues is the reintegration of hundreds of thousands of veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. To answer his call and this powerful issue, the community-based non-profit ONE Freedom is stepping up to expand delivery of its reintegration training programs from the front range of Colorado to a national scale, by rolling out a new state-of-the-art website. READ MORE »
Experts Gather for Second Annual NMFA Youth Initiatives Summit “Research, Policy, Action”
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Contact:
Michelle Joyner
703-931-6632
publicrelations@nmfa.org
http://www.nmfa.org/
ALEXANDRIA, VA October 28, 2008 — Last Wednesday, The National Military Family Association (NMFA) hosted its second Youth Summit: “Research, Policy, Action.” READ MORE »
MARINE CORPS MARATHON FORWARD IN IRAQ KICKS OFF START TO “THE PEOPLE’S MARATHON”
150 Run in Iraq for the Fallen and Raise Funds to Help TAPS Support the Families Left Behind
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2008
WASHINGTON – On the other side of the globe, the Marine Corps Marathon will get an early start on October 26th as “Marine Corps Marathon Forward” kicks off the well-known “People’s Marathon” in Al Asad, Iraq.
“Making It Home” - NY Times Article Highlights Homes for Our Troops
NY Times | October 9, 2008
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa.
SIX weeks after James Fair, a 22-year-old combat engineer, began serving in Iraq in the fall of 2003, he detonated a homemade bomb while walking away from a barbed wire fence he had just erected near Falluja. He lost his eyesight and both arms below the elbows, and sustained brain injuries.
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“Veterans, Alone Together, Share Stories They Can’t Tell You” - NY Times Article Highlights Vets4Vets
NY Times | October 6, 2008
By LAWRENCE DOWNES
The war on terror, which has now lasted longer than World War II, is producing a growing family of combat veterans. It’s a disconnected family, large and far-flung, but close in ways that battle-tested soldiers always are.
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