Bridgewater Veteran McCormick Sees Vet Problems Un-addressed and Repeating

David McCormick, a Gulf War combat veteran and president of Bridgewater Associates, was reading a newspaper article about the troubles veterans facecoming back into the work force when he made a realization. From this he draws the conclusion to help vets re-enter civilized society it will take a village to make a difference.

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Veteran problems from long ago don’t sound any different than today

“On their return home after their long absence from society, and from industry, many of these brave men . . . find it difficult to get the opportunity at once to return to their old avocations,” the newspaper article read. “Their places in the workshops or elsewhere are filled up; and having but little money, and having lost...