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  • US Military Veterans at a National Veterans Day Observance ceremony in the amphitheater of the Arlington National Ceremony on November 11, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia.
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    Veterans are being hit hard by Trump administration firings
  • A US Army serviceman embraces his family on December 10, 2020 at Fort Drum, New York.
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    Military families rocked by Trump’s federal government cuts
  • FILE - Signage stands on the main gate to Camp Lejeune Marine Base outside Jacksonville, N.C., April 29, 2022. Three U.S. Marines found unresponsive in a car at a North Carolina gas station died of carbon monoxide poisoning, the local sheriff's office said Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)
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    Camp Lejeune water contamination cases increasingly becoming wrongful death claims as lawsuits proceed at a crawl
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    Military children grapple with parents being deployed over the holidays
  • CNN's Drew Griffin
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    Uncovering the Veterans Affairs scandal, CNN’s Drew Griffin helped ordinary people find the courage to right wrongs
  • CHATHAM, CAPE COD:  American flag flying and traditional wooden timber clapboard architecture house near Cockle Cove at Chatham, Cape Cod, New England, United States.  (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)
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    Military families are on the move. How to be a Blue Star neighbor
  • President Joe Biden speaks outside Independence Hall, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, in Philadelphia.
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    Biden’s use of Marines during Philadelphia speech adds to debate over politicization of the military
  • Mikhail with his son, Semen, during his previous deployment, in 2014.
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    ‘I’m angry at the war’: Ukrainian family waits anxiously as father goes off to fight for the second time
  • Nasema holds her two children in Houston.
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    Afghan mom had to decide whether to forgo escape – or leave some of her kids behind
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    The moral injury of abandoning Afghan allies
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    Surviving combat only to die at home: Retired Staff Sgt. Wesley Black is picking out his coffin at 35 years old
  • A member of the Armed Forces takes part in the Flags-In ceremony, where more than 1,000 service members place flags in front of more than 260,000 headstones on May 27, 2021, in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
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    As America winds down its longest war, the effects are felt by those who served as well as their families
  • This picture taken 26 December 2011 shows the Pentagon building in Washington, DC.  The Pentagon, which is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense (DOD), is the world's largest office building by floor area, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m2) are used as offices.  Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. (Photo credit should read STAFF/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Trump calls for ballot counting scenario where votes legally cast by military would be thrown out
  • President Donald Trump with John Kelly on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday May 29, 2017.
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    What’s in it for them? Wounded veterans and Gold Star families answer Trump’s question about why troops serve
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    As Trump loses his generals, he clings to the legacy of Confederate failure
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    Military spouses across the US organize and march in support of Black Lives Matter
  • Marine Corps Lance Corporal Robby Mathews in Afghanistan.
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    They didn’t die in combat, but they lived heroic lives. Remembering the military heroes who died by suicide
  • AnneClaire Stapleton's nine-year-old son
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    We are all serving right now: The military spouse’s guide to surviving a pandemic
  • Wesley Black in Paktia Provence, Afghanistan in 2010. Military Working Dog "Blek" is his spotter.
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    What’s killing Staff Sergeant Wesley Black? The VA doesn’t want to talk about it
  • Meghan Wieten-Scott and her family. Photo credit: Wieten-Scott family.
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    More than a third of military families said they have no one to ask for a favor, survey finds
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    The unseen toll of traumatic brain injuries: One veteran asks, ‘What if they could just cut my head off?’
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    On Veterans Day, a reminder of a different cost of service: Why military spouses have a hard time getting hired
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    For Gold Star families, the ultimate sacrifice comes heavily taxed
  • Jenny Lee Maldonado hugs her dad Ferdi who is deployed away from his family on Father's Day.
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    Military kids honor their dads deployed on Father’s Day
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    Second lady Karen Pence: Military mom, military spouse advocate
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    The bipartisan bill that could save veterans’ lives
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    Planning a family around a war
  • Nick Paraiso and Thomas Krasnican interview retired four-star Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal for the "Thank You For Your Service" podcast.
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    How one podcast is tackling the politicization of the military
  • Bashir Jahan, a 22 year Navy veteran, has been a stay-at-home dad for almost six years now, caring for his three children. His wife is an active duty naval surface warfare officer.
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    When mom deploys
  • MIAMI - MARCH 08:  A U.S. Coast Guard boat participates in the Homeland Security Task Force Southeast  mass migration drill March 8, 2007 off the shore of  Miami, Florida. Hundreds of response personnel from more than 50 local, county, state and federal agencies participated in the two-day exercise that was simulating a large, sudden change in the migration process in Cuba and the United States' response.  (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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    Coast Guard families were pushed to their breaking points in the shutdown. They don’t expect it to be the last
  • FORT DRUM, NY - MAY 17:  A father and son walk from a welcome-home ceremony for soldiers returning from Iraq on May 17, 2016 at Fort Drum, New York. More than 1,000 members of the 10th Mountain Division 1st Brigade Combat Team are returning home after a 9-month deployment in Iraq as part of Operation Inherent Resolve to train and advise Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State. The 10th Mountain brigade was replaced in Iraq by the 101st Airborne 2nd Brigade Combat Team based at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky.  (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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    It’s time to bridge the military-civilian divide in the US
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    My hope is to create a forum where the stories of military families will reach a large audience and where we can reveal the common ground between people on either side of the military-civilian divide in the service of our society and democracy.
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  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 06: A view of a photo booth with Elmo during "Mindful Families" presented by Headspace in partnership with Sesame Street and Unicorn Productions at Second Floor on September 06, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Headspace)
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    During a time of division, 9/11 events remind nation how united we can be 2:30
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    Inside the US military’s push for small, cheap drones that have transformed the battlefield 2:20
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    WWII veteran describes the moment when kamikaze plane hit USS Missouri 1:54
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    WWII veteran shows the cherished memento he made after a surprise attack on his ship 1:56
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    Director James Cameron says his film about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is ‘a sacred duty’ 2:54
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    ‘It’s too late for me’: Why dying veteran fights to end military burn pits 5:17
  • The guided missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii Nov. 21, 2012. Michael Murphy honors the late Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a SEAL, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat as the leader of a four-man reconnaissance team in Afghanistan. Murphy was the first person to be awarded the medal for actions in Afghanistan, and the first member of the U.S. Navy to receive the award since the Vietnam War. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Diana Quinlan/Released)
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    Major coronavirus outbreak hits crew of US Navy warship 3:24
  • Marine Corps Major John Ruocco, his wife Kim and their two boys.
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    Remembering military heroes who died by suicide 5:03
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    Their military rapists were freed by this technicality 7:07
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    Brianna Keilar on family planning around a war 0:59

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