{"id":5811,"date":"2009-11-11T19:33:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2009-11-11T19:33:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:33:31","slug":"they-also-serve-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5811","title":{"rendered":"they also serve at home"},"content":{"rendered":"

(On the way home from an AmericaSpeaks board meeting in Washington) “Recent veterans who have volunteered since returning to the United States show a better adjustment to civilian life than their fellow returned servicemen and women who have not volunteered, according to a new report issued in time for Veterans Day.” That is the lead of CIRCLE’s Veteran’s Day release<\/a>, based on a survey of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans that we helped construct and analyze for Civic Enterprises<\/a>. The implication is that we need to make sure returning veterans have opportunities to serve at home.<\/p>\n

See also Civic Enterprise’s full report, All Volunteer Force<\/a>, which we helped with and which was released in DC today with Michelle Obama and others in attendance.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I thought the president’s speech<\/a> from yesterday was magnificent. “Long after they are laid to rest – when the fighting has finished, and our nation has endured; when today’s servicemen and women are veterans, and their children have grown – it will be said of this generation that they believed under the most trying of tests; that they persevered not just when it was easy, but when it was hard; and that they paid the price and bore the burden to secure this nation, and stood up for the values that live in the hearts of all free peoples.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(On the way home from an AmericaSpeaks board meeting in Washington) “Recent veterans who have volunteered since returning to the United States show a better adjustment to civilian life than their fellow returned servicemen and women who have not volunteered, according to a new report issued in time for Veterans Day.” That is the lead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}