At Veterans Day event, Chuck Hagel calls for more opportunities for vets

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joseph Morton

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called on the nation to create more opportunities for those who have served in uniform when he spoke Tuesday at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

The keynote speaker at the Veterans Day event, Hagel was introduced as the first enlisted combat veteran to run the Pentagon and “a man with shrapnel in his chest still” from his time in Vietnam.

A crowd of veterans, their families and other supporters gathered for his speech before the iconic black wall of 58,300 names honoring those who fell in Vietnam.

Hagel’s thoughts drifted back to a Veterans Day celebration 45 years ago — the first one that he attended as a veteran himself.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, and Army Secretary John McHugh attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, in honor of Veterans Day on Tuesday.


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1. Well, perhaps unpopular, but why should the vet get a job over a non-vet?

If there are a finite number of jobs, that puts someone else out of work.
This comment does not apply to anyone drafted. Fine for them to get preference.