Help Is on the Way

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/opinion/22herbert.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

By BOB HERBERT
Published: November 22, 2008

With so much attention understandably focused on the economy and the incoming administration, the struggles being faced by G.I.’s coming home from combat overseas are receding even further from the public’s consciousness.
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"Colleges are not prepared for the large wave of vets who will return needing all kinds of services beyond academic support."


If you’re in your late teens or early 20s and your energies have been directed for a year or more toward dodging roadside bombs and ambushes, caring for horribly wounded comrades and, in general, killing before being killed, it can be difficult to readjust to a world of shopping malls, speed limits and polite conversation.

Bryan Adams is the face of a sophisticated new advertising campaign that is trying to get troubled veterans to come in from the cold and piercingly lonely environment of post-wartime stress.