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2) From we will to at will: a handbook for veteran hiring, transitioning, and thriving in the workplace
Author
Publisher
Society for Human Resource Management
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The "dramatic story of the 20th century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy--would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather--as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have." --
Ursula Todd's brother Teddy is an old man trying to come to grips with his post-War life and with a modern world and...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Today, America has nearly eighteen million living military veterans, from the Greatest Generation to men and women coming home from recent tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. They join the now-silent ranks of American veterans reaching back to our earliest conflict, the Revolutionary War.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians -- but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Written by veterans who have successfully made the transition, "Down Range" offers career planning guidance to U.S. military veterans coming off active duty. This is NOT simply a guide to transitioning from the military to the civilian world. This is NOT a guide to getting a job. This book IS a guide to developing a post-military career, not just for the first few days, weeks, or months after active duty, but for the rest of your employed life"--Provided...
7) Breaking
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life.
9) Coming home
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. While Sally's husband is serving in Vietnam, she becomes involved with a veteran of the war, a paraplegic at a San Diego veterans hospital.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A generation of warriors are coming home. They face a daunting transition to civilian life. They need a way to de-escalate from combat--and they need a new mission. Simultaneously, half the farmers and ranchers in America are at retirement age and need a new generation to take over the reins. Agriculture's problem is the veterans' solution. "Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields" champions veterans who are restoring their own lives and revitalizing...
12) The deer hunter
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Five friends, Michael, Nick, Steven, Stan, and Axel, who are from a small town in middle America, work in the stifling heat and infernal din of a steel mill. They blow off steam after work at a neighborhood tavern. They go deer hunting every fall. One day late in 1968, Michael, Steven, and Nick leave for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela; their wedding reception serves as the friend's farewell party. 30...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family dealing with 9/11, continuing through the intensity of four...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When a partner or spouse returns from war, it is a time of joy; but it is also a time of transition, challenges, and uncertainty. The truth is that the process of reintegration can last for years, and it can be a particularly difficult time for both returning heroes and their families. If your partner has recently returned from war, or if they will be returning soon, you should be prepared for the unique challenges that lay ahead. Your loved one...
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