Life hasn’t been easy for Enester Amerson, a 60-year-old retired engineer from Chicago who is a U.S. veteran from the Vietnam war. Since then, he’s…
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Veterans in America: A Community in Crisis
Enester Amerson has a warm smile and kind brown eyes. He was a high school athlete back in the day; he ran cross country and…
Illinois vets can earn college credit through military experience
Veterans in Illinois will have the opportunity to apply their military training and expertise to their college careers after leaving the service, under a program sponsored by…
Life after Military Combat Hard for Returning Vets
The U.S. Army trains its soldiers on how to go to war, but not necessarily on how to come back home, so say some Chicago-area…