Veterans Administration
When Armistice Day and Remembrance Day Turned into War Day
Cognitive dissonance in Psychology
The psychological tension that occurs when one holds mutually exclusive beliefs or attitudes and that often motivates people to modify their thoughts or behaviors in order to reduce the tension.
Anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like, as when one likes a person but disapproves of one of his or her habits.
Motivated Ignorance in Politics
You’re Fired! Trump Terminated 500 Veterans Administration Workers, and Suspended 200 for Misconduct
Corruption has cost the lives of scores of veterans who died waiting for care while bureaucrats falsified data to collect bonuses. [...]
US Veteran Who Served Two Tours In Afghanistan Facing Deportation
Miguel Perez, Jr., 38, is facing deportation to Mexico, despite his permanent resident status and his service in the Army, after he was convicted in 2010 on a non-violent drug charge.
An injured U.S. veteran who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan faces deportation to Mexico after a Chicago judge ordered his deportation on Sunday.