Sentences with phrase «returning war vets»

Eric Hollenbeck didn't plan to be a time traveler, or a museum curator, or a model of how to take care of troubled youth or returning war vets...

Eric Hollenbeck didn't plan to be a time traveller, or a museum curator, or a model of how to take care of troubled youth or returning war vets.

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A group of Afghan vets who went to court to fight the slashing of benefits were informed, in response, that the Harper government has torn up the social contract with vets that has been in place since World War I. Fantino's department, in the midst of all the cutbacks, returned $ 1.13 billion of unspent funds, and then announced that $ 200 million of that would be returned to improve services.

As a veteran, he expressed concern for all disabled vets, particularly those returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Music Within (R for profanity, sexual reference and drug use) Docudrama chronicles the true story of Richard Pimentel (Ron Livingston) a severely hearing - impaired Vietnam vet who returns from the war to dedicate his life to speaking out on behalf of Americans with disabilities.

While this is certainly a message that few would find fault with, with better films about the experience of combat vets returning home, setting the film up in the Iraq War and then delivering manipulative and mawkish drama where realistic portrayals should be isn't the way to go about it.

Sure, there have been classics like the 1946 Oscar winner The Best Years of Our Lives which focused on World War II vets returning home, or 1978's Coming Home and 1989's Born On The Fourth Of July focusing on the plight of Vietnam vets, but this kind of movie is increasingly... Read

Frank Sinatra plays a World War II returning vet and prospective novelist who goes back to his bourgeois Midwestern hometown.

«Street Warrior»: War vet returns home to battle corruption and take part in an underground fight club; with Max Martini of TV's «The Unit.»

He dons the itchy outfit to play A.A. Milne, a shell - shocked World War I vet who returns to London after combat and finds he can no longer write superficial West End comedies.

Korean War vet Lucas (Mitchum) returns home and sets about working for his family's moonshine business, making perilous deliveries in a modified hot rod.

You play as Lincoln Clay, a Vietnam War vet thats returns home from combat to find his hometown caught up in a war between various underworld crime organisatioWar vet thats returns home from combat to find his hometown caught up in a war between various underworld crime organisatiowar between various underworld crime organisations.

So while we sit lemonade, play polo and go on about our business living the illusion of freedom, what do you say to our returning troops who can not find support from our country, our homeless vets, where the suicide rate from returning vets in Iraq is the highest it's ever been in war history, funds for their rehab is either null or shamefully deficient.

Upon my return from Vietman war, myself and many other vets were called baby killers.

After lobbyists pressed Congress, they eventually passed a law approving compound interest, not long after the Second World War when all the vets returned home.