Veterans

A bipartisan group of lawmakers united on Monday to call for action from both Congress and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

• By Jack Herrera

A South Korean woman touches the engraved name of her older brother who died during the Korean War at Seoul National Cemetery.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A conversation with psychologist Ken Falke, who uses the concept of post-traumatic growth—which emphasizes that there can be positive consequences to trauma and suffering—to help combat veteran suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder.

• By Ethan Walker

Despite some positive trends, society needs to do more to help ease service members back into civilian life.

• By Ethan Walker

In what has become a staple of this administration, infighting, backstabbing, and lack of leadership is plaguing potential legislative progress within the VA.

• By Isaac Arnsdorf

At a meeting in March, a lead analyst in the VA's compensation service was critical of the media, scientists, and the VA's own administrative tribunal for taking positions that differ from his.

• By Charles Ornstein

Pressler founded the Armed Services Arts Partnership, a non-profit that provides free arts programming for veterans and their families to express their experiences.

• By Avital Andrews

A veteran walks through Arlington National Cemetery on May 29th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

As President Trump continues to push his Muslim ban, members of our armed forces find themselves in precarious positions.

• By Michelle Threadgould

The museum, like the video game, relies on careful curation to furnish an alternate experience of reality. Playing Pokémon Go at a memorial isn’t just disrespectful — it interferes with the augmented reality you’re already in.

• By Natalie Shure

Neither the Navy nor the Department of Veterans Affairs has a comprehensive list of which ships went where during the Vietnam War. As a result, veterans themselves often have to prove their ships served in areas where Agent Orange was sprayed.

• By Charles Ornstein & Terry Parris Jr.

A federal court had ordered the VA to re-assess its policy denying Agent Orange benefits to Navy sailors who served in the Vietnam War. The VA's conclusion: They still don't qualify.

• By Charles Ornstein & Terry Parris Jr.

Veterans buy homes in more diverse neighborhoods than the rest of us, a new study of Veterans Affairs loans suggests.

• By Nathan Collins

The 1991 law presumes veterans were exposed to the defoliant if they have certain diseases and “set foot” in Vietnam, but Navy vets and Air Force vets in Thailand say they were also exposed. Here’s our guide to groups seeking Agent Orange benefits.

• By Charles Ornstein

The rift between our civilian and military population has widened in the past 15 years. We can close the gap through storytelling.

• By Jenny Lu Mallamo

How does one tell the untraumatized majority about the conditions that constitute the underworld of trauma?

• By Sally Satel

A round-up of in-depth reporting on the chronic problems facing the VA health system.

• By Hanqing Chen

Marines who took an eight-week course in the basics of mindfulness recovered from stress faster following an intense training session that replicated battlefield conditions.

• By Tom Jacobs

Preying on people’s very best impulses for the very worst reasons.

• By Lauren Kirchner

By helping others, Michael "Doc" Piper has finally found a way to cope with his anger, nightmares, and flashbacks.

• By Becky Bach

Vet courts, like drug courts, treat the underlying factors for first-time offenders.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Doctors consider how to respond to the domestic abuse of female veterans.

• By Lauren Kirchner

As wave of military suicides continues.

• By Marc Herman

Can mindfulness help heal our wounded soldiers?

• By Kevin Charles Fleming