Veterans Coming Home: Social Integration

Veterans Coming Home: Social Integration

Producer Tony Dunne and videographer Mark Langevin talk to area veterans about their struggles to return to civilian life after their time of service, the resources that helped them, and the problems that issues such as geography, education and circumstance play in...
Women in War

Women in War

Charly Oliva, a US Army veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Deputy Director of the Department of Veterans Services for the City of Springfield, discusses her experiences as woman serving in combat zones in the U.S. military and the changing role of women in...

Veterans Coming Home: Veteran Housing

As a continuation of our Veterans Coming Home Series, Connecting Point’s Jim Madigan discusses homeless veterans with Jim Seney, a Social Work Executive and Program Manager for Community Reintegration Services at the VA Central Western Massachusetts Health Care...
Veterans Coming Home: Veteran Homelessness

Veterans Coming Home: Veteran Homelessness

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) states that the nation’s homeless veterans are predominantly male, with roughly 8% being female. The majority are single; live in urban areas; and suffer from mental illness, alcohol and/or substance abuse, or co-occurring...

Purple Hearts Reunited

Captain Zachariah Fike spends a considerable amount of his own time to track down lost or stolen medals and return them to the veteran who earned them or to their families. He founded the non-profit organization, Purple Hearts Reunited, and travels all over the...

Military Veteran Hirings

Here at WGBY we’ve been talking about the challenges and triumphs military veterans face when they come home. Finding a job that uses their military experience can be part of the struggle. One local town Chicopee just hired 5 veterans for their police force and...

Vietnam Veterans Day

Vietnam Veterans Day is Sunday, March 30. We’ll talk with Springfield Veterans Activities Committee members Richard J. Tyrell and Peter Lappin about events planned, as well as the importance and meaning of this...

Veteran Business Owner

Nick Colgin served 15 months in Afghanistan as an airborne medic, earning the Bronze Star. He was recognized for saving the life of a French soldier who had been shot in the head and for working with other soldiers to rescue more than 40 civilians from a flood. When...