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Veterans who need financial fiduciaries can lose their gun rights. Critics say that's unfair.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Sgt. Corey Briest (left) poses with his son Connor and wife Jenny, as Connor joins the South Dakota Army National Guard in Sioux Falls, March 11, 2022., Credit: South Dakota Army National Guard
Congress is considering whether to override a VA policy that says veterans who need financial fiduciaries may be reported to the FBI’s background c...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 4
Doctors turn to AI and wearable monitors to measure the effects of burn pits on veterans' health
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: At his office on Long Island, New York, Dr. Anthony Szema models the smart ring that tracks health data for veterans who were exposed to fumes from toxic burn pits overseas., Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront
A long-term study hopes to shed light on an array of vague symptoms that can affect veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 8
3M has agreed to pay $6 billion over faulty earplugs. Now, plaintiffs must decide whether to accept.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: 3M's dual-ended "Combat Arms" earplugs were issued to troops from 2003 to 2015. They were designed to let conversation, commands, and other normal sounds through, but blunt the force of loud noises like gunfire., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
About a quarter million troops and veterans have signed on as plaintiffs in litigation claiming the "Combat Arms" earplugs - manufactured by a 3M s...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 7
78 years after Joe Cooper survived a kamikaze attack, the Navy has identified his ship's wreckage
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: 101-year-old Joe Cooper survived the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Ommaney Bay. He calls it a "miracle" that divers have found and identified the wrecked aircraft carrier off the coast of the Philippines., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
101-year-old Joe Cooper was a crew member of the USS Ommaney Bay, which was attacked by a Japanese suicide pilot in World War II.

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 5
The VA is facing a growing number of claims as a key PACT Act deadline approaches
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Volunteer Veteran Service Officers Hugh Reid (right) and Eric Isaksen help a veteran file a disability claim at American Legion Post 327 in Norfolk, Virginia., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
The law passed last year makes millions of veterans eligible for new benefits, including post 9/11 vets who were exposed to burn pits.

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2023
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 8
The Pentagon has begun implementing a law to reduce suicides, 18 months after Congress passed it
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gilbert R. Cisneros Jr. signs a policy to implement the Brandon Act on May 5. Attending the signing were Patrick and Teri Caserta, the parents of Brandon Caserta, a Navy sailor who died by suicide, Credit: Jack Sanders / U.S. Air Force
The Pentagon has put in place "The Brandon Act" - named after a Navy sailor who died by suicide in 2018. It allows service members to go outside th...

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  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
Can AI help predict military suicides? The VA is funding a project to find out.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Dustin Millado, a veteran who worked in the Army Criminal Investigation Division, is now a digital forensic examiner for Stop Soldier Suicide’s Black Box Project., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
The project is using artificial intelligence to analyze data from smartphones, laptops, and other devices of people who take their own lives.

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 8
After decades of reluctance, the VA is studying psychedelic drugs for PTSD and other disorders
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A participant in a trial at Washington University in St. Louis. relaxes after receiving a dose of psilocybin, a psychedelic drug., Credit: Josh Siegel / Washington University
Research into psychedelic drugs was halted in the 1960s amid concern about recreational use. Now, the VA is among dozens of medical providers resum...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 7
Policymakers say addressing extremism among veterans is a 'delicate' challenge
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: According to the George Washington University Program on Extremism, more than a hundred veterans were criminally charged in connection with the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol., Credit: Brett Davis / Flickr
While still a small percentage of the total veteran population, the number of veterans committing extremist violence has risen sharply, according t...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2022
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 5
Veterans Appreciation Music Mix - Hour 2
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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For on or near VETERAN'S DAY or MEMORIAL DAY, or most any time, a second carefully curated hour of music for and about veterans, appreciating their...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
American Veteran: This Black World War II aviator first experienced racial integration in a POW camp
From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran
Caption: Lt. Colonel (Ret.) Harold Brown, member of World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen., Credit: Ronan Killeen
When he was 11 years old, Harold Brown decided he wanted to be a pilot. He flew 30 missions during World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the ...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
American Veteran: In the era of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, military service meant living a double life
From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran
Caption: Brandon D. Anderson, veteran of the U.S. Army., Credit: Ben Bloodwell
Brandon Anderson spent nearly five years in the Army, deploying twice to Iraq between 2003 and 2008. But as a gay service member during the Don’t A...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
American Veteran: She dreamed of a Marine Corps career, but wasn't prepared for the 'shadow side.'
From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran
Caption: Sergeant C.J. Scarlet, veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps., Credit: Ronan Killeen
Growing up as the daughter of a Marine, C.J. Scarlet dreamed of following in her father’s footsteps. When she enlisted in 1981, she was part of the...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
American Veteran: For a World War II navigator, the Army provided a sense of purpose
From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran
Caption: 2nd Lieutenant Edward Field, veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II., Credit: Insignia Films
When Edward Field was in a plane crash during World War II, an act of altruism saved his life. Field – who grew up gay and Jewish in New York – fou...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lawyers are seeking clients for Camp Lejeune water claims, but veterans may be better off waiting
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Surrounded by veterans, family members, and others at an August 2022 ceremony, President Joe Biden signs legislation designed to compensate people who were exposed to toxic substances during their military service, including people who lived on Camp Lejeu, Credit: C-Span
Lawyers are aggressively advertising potential windfalls for people exposed to contaminated water at the base. But it's too soon to know how the cl...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 5
Archives, artifacts, and 'a lot of rocks': The Army Corps of Engineers is training veterans for jobs
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Matthew Hanks labels a pottery shard in the Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis office. Hanks is part of the Corps Veterans Curation Program, which employs veterans to help maintain artifacts unearthed in various Corps projects., Credit: Eric Schmid / American Homefront
An Army Corps of Engineers program teaches former troops how to do curation work, while also preparing them for jobs in other fields.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 6
For veterans trying to help their Afghan allies come to the U.S., it's a slow, frustrating process
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Eric Terashima (right) stands with an interpreter, an Afghan Army Colonel, and some Afghan children in a 2010 photograph., Credit: Courtesy Eric Terashima
Since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan last year, many American veterans have tried to help Afghan allies escape the collapsing country. Though s...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 4
Jason Kander's INVISIBLE STORM. A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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With INVISIBLE STORM Jason Kander has written the book he himself needed in his darkest moments of PTSD. After Afghanistan, his day job was politic...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 10:01
2224: Refeed: The Art of War Writing, 6/16/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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On this week’s episode of On Story from Austin Film Festival, we take a look at writing for war films with writers David Broyles, Bill Broyles, Ran...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Her son was killed in Afghanistan last year. This is her first Memorial Day as a Gold Star mother.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Cheryl Rex,right, is comforted by her mother, Clarinda Montsuoka, near the grave of Rex's son at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Orange County, California. Lance Corporal Dylan Merola was killed in Afghanistan in August 2021., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
Cheryl Rex's son Dylan was among the last American victims of the Afghanistan war. In the months since his death, she's visited his grave almost ev...

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  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
More than a three-day weekend: A small movement tries to return Memorial Day to its original meaning
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Nassau County, N.Y. Executive Bruce Blakeman shows a video of the Israeli Memorial Day moment of silence. Blakeman is calling for a similar county-wide initiative on Long Island. , Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront
Leaders in Long Island, New York want people to pull their cars off the road and stop what they're doing for two county-wide moments of silence to ...

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  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 3
Veterans are at higher risk of eating disorders. The pressure of military life may be one cause.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Chandler Rand accepts her trophy at the 2018 All American Marathon at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Rand was the first female to complete the race., Credit: Fort Bragg Family & MWR
A VA study concluded that veterans experience bulimia at about three times the civilian rate.

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 8
The VA wants to close and replace older hospitals. But there's opposition in some communities.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: The Fort Meade, S.D. VA hospital, built in 1956, is among the facilities that would close under the VA restructuring plan. It would be replaced by a new hospital approximately 30 miles away in Rapid City., Credit: Department of Veterans Affairs
The VA wants to close and replace older hospitals. But there's opposition in some communities.

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 5
Growing up too soon: When kids and teenagers are caregivers for disabled veteran parents
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Lara and Trey Garey stand at the bedside of Tom Garey, an Air Force veteran with advanced ALS. 19-year-old Trey has spent much of his teenage years caring for his father at their home in Cedar Park, Texas., Credit: Carson Frame / American Homefront
More than two million American children and teenagers live with a wounded or ill veteran. Many help with the veteran's care and face challenges lik...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 6
Underfunded and understaffed, some state veterans homes are turning residents away
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Amanda Eldridge, a certified occupational therapist assistant, works with a veteran at the state-run St. James Veterans Home in St. James, Missouri., Credit: Brian Munoz / St. Louis Public Radio
Labor shortages exacerbated by the pandemic have left facilities around the country with empty beds, even though veterans are on waiting lists hopi...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 6