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Edition: US
10 November 2017
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The Post-9/11 GI Bill has helped more than a million veterans go to college by paying for expenses such as tuition, textbooks and housing. However, writes UC Riversideâs Ann Cheney, it fails to provide support for â[emotional and psychological stress](â as veterans make a difficult transition from military to student life.
Thereâs no one story that describes the experience of Americaâs more than 20 million veterans, writes James Dubinsky of Virginia Tech. [Poetry by veterans](, however, may help us connect to âthose who have not come home, those who have and those who have but who are caught in that space between here and there.â
And, a toxicologist turned genealogist did a bit of sleuthing to try to find out why thousands of World War I soldiers and service men, who were otherwise healthy, died from the flu during the infamous 1918 pandemic. âWith men mobilizing for World War I, [the flu spread to military installations throughout the U.S](,â writes Dartmouth Collegeâs Ruth Craig. But why?
Kalpana Jain
Religion + Ethics Editor
Top stories
For veterans going back to school, student life can involve many stresses. US Department of Education
[The emotional challenges of student veterans on campus](
Ann Cheney, University of California, Riverside
Since 2009, nearly one million veterans have benefited from the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which helps them pay for tuition and other expenses. A scholar explains how it's a hard transition.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
[Veterans turned poets can help bridge divides](
James Dubinsky, Virginia Tech
Civilians have become so far removed from the military and war, it can be hard to understand veterans. Their poetry can help us connect.
Beds with patients in an emergency hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, during the influenza epidemic around 1918. National Museum of Health and Medicine.
[The mystery of a 1918 veteran and the flu pandemic](
Ruth Craig, Dartmouth College
Many healthy young men and women, including military personnel, died in the 1918 flu pandemic. It's a reminder of how dangerous influenza can be.
Economy + Business
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[Want to support veterans? 4 tips for finding good charities](
Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University
Some veterans' charities make the most of their donors' dollars, while others squander that money. Vetting these groups will help ensure your money is well-spent.
Science + Technology
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[Military-funded prosthetic technologies benefit more than just veterans](
Mark Geil, Georgia State University
Devices created for service members and veterans also help civilian children, elderly people and young adults maximize their mobility.
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[Breaking down their own stereotypes to give veterans more career opportunities](
Eileen Trauth, Pennsylvania State University
Large numbers of veterans hold misconceptions about IT work that discourage them from pursuing careers in the field.
Education
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[Helping military service members complete college](
Jonathan Smith, Georgia State University
Every year, thousands of active military and veterans enroll as undergrads, but only half leave with a degree. What cheap and effective strategies could help our military complete college?
Ethics + Religion
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[What is moral injury in veterans?](
Holly Arrow, University of Oregon; William M. Schumacher, University of Oregon
The inability to reconcile wartime actions with a personal moral code can create lasting psychological consequences for veterans.
Health + Medicine
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[Caring for veterans: A privilege and a duty](
Sanjay Saint, University of Michigan
A physician who has spent 25 years working within VA hospitals reflects on what it has meant to him to serve those who have served our country.
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Jeff South, Virginia Commonwealth University
It's time for newspapers to stop telling their dwindling number of subscribers how to vote.
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[GOP plan to tax college endowments like Yale's and Harvard's would be neither fair nor effective](
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
Colleges and universities boast US$547 billion in endowment assets, yet only a handful of elite schools would be taxed under the proposal.
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[Academic journal publishing is headed for a day of reckoning](
Patrick Burns, Colorado State University
In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.
Armistice Day
[How Woodrow Wilson's propaganda machine changed American journalism](
Christopher B. Daly, Boston University
An executive order signed in 1917 created what's been called 'the nation's first ministry of information.' The media are still feeling its impact.
[From shell-shock to PTSD, a century of invisible war trauma](
MaryCatherine McDonald, Old Dominion University; Marisa Brandt, Michigan State University; Robyn Bluhm, Michigan State University
Mental health trauma has always been a part of war. Treatments have come a long way over the last century, but we still don't understand why the responses change for different people and times.
[How World War I sparked the artistic movement that transformed black America](
Elizabeth J. West, Georgia State University
Many associate post-World War I culture with Hemingway and Fitzgerald's Lost Generation. But for black artists, writers and thinkers, the war changed the way they saw their past and their future.
[Why women's peace activism in World War I matters now](
Anya Jabour, The University of Montana
A century ago, American women organized to protest World War I. The fact that their efforts failed isn't the most important point.
[How World War I ushered in the century of oil](
Brian C. Black, Pennsylvania State University
Before World War I, petroleum had few practical uses, but it emerged from the war as a strategic global asset necessary for national stability and security.
[How Christianity shaped the experience and memories of World War I](
Jonathan Ebel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Writings at the time of WWI aimed to construct a religiously diverse and conflicted America into a virtuous, Christian nation. This narrative continued in the cemeteries for the war heroes.
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