IAVA's Chief Policy Officer Melissa Bryant joins host Eric Dehm to discuss their recent Storm The Hill event in D.C. and go over the "Big 6" policy focuses for 2018 including suicide, burn pits, equality for women vets, education benefits and more!

Thousands of murals painted by soldiers.  They've been found by California State University Monterey Bay Professor Enid Baxter Ryce -- who features them, in the documentary Film A Land for War -- as artifacts of what was once the Army's Fort Ord.  ConnectingVets.com managing editor Chas Henry reports the story for CBS Eye on Veterans.

Thousands of murals painted by soldiers.  They've been found by California State University Monterey Bay Professor Enid Baxter Ryce -- who features them, in the documentary Film A Land for War -- as artifacts of what was once the Army's Fort Ord.

IAVA's Chief Policy Officer Melissa Bryant joins host Eric Dehm to discuss their recent Storm The Hill event in D.C. and go over the "Big 6" policy focuses for 2018 including suicide, burn pits, equality for women vets, education benefits and more!

Disabled veterans from across the U. S. headed to Colorado for a winter sports clinic sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the group Disabled Veterans Americans.  CBS Eye on Veterans' Chas Henry spoke with event organizers, and a handful of participating adaptive athletes.

Disabled veterans headed to Colorado for a winter sports clinic sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the group Disabled Veterans Americans. 

As villages in Afghanistan continue to rebuild after years of warfare, some vets are helping restore power. 

During the Vietnam War, Sam Johnson -- now a congressman from Texas -- spent seven years as a prisoner of war -- much of the time imprisoned, sometimes tortured, in the infamous camp ironically called the Hanoi Hilton.  When finally released, Johnson secretly absconded with what had been his only personal possessions -- a small metal cup and a tube of toothpaste.  Though of little material value, he says they meant everything to him when he had nothing else.  This is what it sounded like when Johnson recently donated the two items to the National Museum of American History.

Producer Jake Hughes speaks with Ken Wiseman, the Associate Director for the VFW's National Legislative service, about the fourth VFW-SVA Fellowship class, WHich chooses ten student veterans from across the nation to help push for legislation in Washington, DC.