Veteran Unemployment Rate Skyrockets

"The return to civilian life for U.S. Soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan is full of pitfalls, with an unemployment rate three times the national average."

"The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says that for the first three quarters of 2005, nearly 15 percent of veterans aged 20-24 are jobless -- three times the national average."

"According to the website VeteransToday, published by veterans for veterans, the high unemployment rate is "partly because most service members seriously injured in Iraq and Afghanistan are in the early stages of their military careers and possess limited transferable job skills or very little civilian work experience". "

Hmm, I believe I touched on this subject just yesterday. The deaths are constantly reported, but the survivers are seldom mentioned in the press. We go through this after every single war, and here we go again. While there's a lot society can do to help these vets, the government that enlisted them should take the lead, with a little more than just some Veterans Administration care. They should not be simply discharged and forgotten. Politicians like to speak so highly of them when there's a war to be fought, but when they get hurt, they get tossed aside.