Mariel Sosa doesn’t seem like the reclusive type. An outreach worker at Manhattan’s Vet Center, Sosa spends her days getting to know total strangers: veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
Dave Carlson, of Eau Claire, Wis., poses for a portrait outside his home on May 30. NPR Veterans Correspondent Quil Lawrence and Carlson began corresponding 10 years ago when Carlson, an Iraq vet, was ...
It's been an eventful two weeks for Sergeant Liam Madden. Late last month, the Long Island-born Madden found out that the Marines would not proceed with efforts to kick him out of the Corps. Then, ...
A new Tucson-based national group offering emotional support for Iraq veterans has another unstated purpose — to recruit the troubled vets into anti-war activism, some of its fundraising material says ...
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is still holding up hundreds of military nominees, even after the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks. Now, one Iraq War veteran is likening him to a “political suicide bomber.
A Washington Post exposé on veterans faking disabilities has raised concerns about the Department of Veterans Affairs’ $193-billion disability benefits program — and how much fraud is costing ...
Iraq War veteran Dolly Harris is receiving a custom-built, mortgage-free home in Howell. The home is being provided by Homes For Our Troops, a nonprofit that builds adapted houses for severely injured ...
NPR Veterans Correspondent Quil Lawrence and Carlson began corresponding 10 years ago when Carlson, an Iraq vet, was incarcerated. Their conversations follow the evolution of Carlson's life and ...
This story originally published on Nov. 16, 2025. The first I saw of Dave Carlson was his back, in a prison jumpsuit on Sept. 3, 2015. Carlson had been calling me from the cellblock payphone for a few ...
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