The crises of homelessness, suicide, incarceration and joblessness among veterans suggest there are blind spots in America’s ostensible support for its troops. There’s a blind spot, too, to the fact that the U.S. military tends to recruit from low-income communities and from high schools and community colleges, where young people are unlikely to have an informed understanding of themselves, of geopolitics and martial history, or of how their military experience may affect them in the future.
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Opinion: How will U.S. soldiers reckon with Trump’s wars of vanity? The answer will shape America for generations
For U.S. military members, war can give meaning to their service. But the unpopular, unauthorized one that’s now under way in Iran will wreak mortal and moral damage
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