{"id":645438,"date":"2013-03-06T10:22:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=96d84c8ea9f3f8156e0874fb6d454d4e"},"modified":"2013-03-06T10:22:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T15:22:01","slug":"the-changing-face-of-veteran-reintegration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645438","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Face of Veteran Reintegration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post World War II, military veterans returned home to a community of veterans and a grateful nation that had shared in the sacrifice of war. These veterans used the brick and mortar posts of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legion.org\/\">American Legion<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vfw.org\/\">VFW<\/a> to maintain that esprit-de-corps. They mentored youth, advocated on veterans issues, shared war stories, and confided in each other over beers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<div class=\"clearfix\" id=\"small-node-embed-image-detail\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/embedded_img_small\/image\/image_file\/team_rubicon_ii.jpg\" alt=\"President Obama talking with Team Rubicon in the Oval Office\" title=\"President Obama talking with Team Rubicon in the Oval Office\" width=\"430\" height=\"287\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-embedded_img_small\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>\n    President Barack Obama greets members of the Team Rubicon disaster relief organization in the Oval Office, Feb. 8, 2013. Participants include: Danielle Harrington, volunteer; James &#8220;JC&#8221; McGreehan, Mission Leader; William McNulty, Vice President and co-founder; Daniel Nidess, Director of Personnel; Matt Pelak, Director of Strategic Partnerships; Andrew Stevens, Director of Programs; Maria Lourdes Tiglao, Regional Director of Recruitment; and Jacob Wood, President and co-founder.  <\/p>\n<p>    (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For generations, when veterans took off their uniform, their desire to serve did not end. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/joiningforces\/\">That&rsquo;s just as true today<\/a>. Some very creative post 9\/ll veterans&rsquo; charities have adapted to this desire and have created models for continued service and engagement. <a href=\"http:\/\/missioncontinues.org\/\">The Mission Continues<\/a> provides fellowships for returning veterans to continue their service in the public sector. <a href=\"http:\/\/ride2recovery.com\/\">Ride 2 Recovery<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/teamrwb.org\/\"> Team RWB<\/a> use the therapeutic effect of physical training to repair the physical and mental wounds of war. Our organization, <a href=\"http:\/\/teamrubiconusa.org\/\">Team Rubicon<\/a>, uses continued service through disaster response as a means to maintain purpose, community, and a sense-of-self. Our work is inspired by our late friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/watch\/?id=50142087n\">Clay Hunt<\/a>, who took his own life after leaving the service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/changing-face-veteran-reintegration\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post World War II, military veterans returned home to a community of veterans and a grateful nation that had shared in the sacrifice of war. These veterans used the brick and mortar posts of the American Legion and the VFW to maintain that esprit-de-corps. They mentored youth, advocated on veterans issues, shared war stories, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7731,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}