Jonathan Raab, a veteran, explains the difficulty other veterans face when trying to reenter the civilian workforce:
The veteran unemployment level is currently four percentage points higher than the national average. Although most people are not paying attention to the wars, their legacies are filtering back into our communities, one veteran at a time. Most of these men and women are just glad to be home and are ready to work. Some have many problems, some have just a few. What we all share is the desire to be respected and appreciated for our service — whether completed or ongoing in a reserve capacity — and to be seen as a benefit to the employer, or an opportunity by the employer to directly support a military that is all too often cleaved from the civilian world it fights to protect.
(Photo: U.S. Army veteran Manuela Rodriguez, 37, arrives to a job fair for veterans on December 10, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. Rodiguez served two tours of duty in the Army, as a generator mechanic and later as a finance specialist and had been out of work as a civilian for the last year. By John Moore/Getty Images)
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