Stories About OIF/OEF Veterans
All disabled veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families struggle daily to build healthy and stable civilian lives. And unfortunately, many are not successful. This area of the Rebuild Hope website links to media stories that highlight their progress, obstacles, and personal costs.
2 Iraq Tours, a Tailspin _ and a Tragic End - NYTimes.com
"Coleman Bean went to Iraq twice, but his father remembers a stark difference in his son's two parting messages. Before his first tour, his father recalls, his son said if anything happened to him, he wanted to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Before his second, four years later, he said he didn't want that any longer." Read Story
In Army's Trauma Care Units, Feeling Warehoused - NYTimes.com
"Created in the wake of the scandal in 2007 over serious shortcomings at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Warrior Transition Units were intended to be sheltering way stations where injured soldiers could recuperate and return to duty or gently process out of the Army. There are currently about 7,200 soldiers at 32 transition units across the Army, with about 465 soldiers at Fort Carson's unit." Read Story
The Shrine Down the Hall - Bedrooms of America's Young War Dead - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
Seven years after the beginning of the Iraq war - and with U.S. troop deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan exceeding 5,000 - a look at some of the bedrooms America's young war dead left behind. View Slide Show