A Veteran's Day Message | VetsBridge.com

Remembering and honoring the men and women who have given their lives in service to our country should involve more than speeches, wreathes, and department store sales. Anyone who has lost a loved one to war understands the devastation of combat. Those who survive the battles often return with a lifetime of physical and emotional injuries. Instead of receiving special care when they come home, our veterans all too often find themselves on the fringes of the society they fought to protect. This includes a denial of medical care, emotional and psychiatric problems, joblessness, homelessness, incarceration and suicide.

We must look for ways to remedy this situation. One step in the right direction is VetsBridge.com, launched in May 2014 to address the issue of unemployment among our nation’s military veterans. VetsBridge.com is an online career-acquisition service that uses a unique algorithm to match military veterans with employers and job openings. This website is making its technology available to veterans throughout the country free of charge and to companies and employers who are seeking to match veterans with civilian careers. Programs such as this are badly needed, given that there currently some 570,000 unemployed veterans in the U.S.

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