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Nov. 11 is Veteran’s Day.

Consider visiting the Wounded Warrior Project website to learn more about what today’s solders need when they come home.

The WWP “exists to honor and empower wounded warriors who incurred service-connected injures on or after September 11, 2001.”

The group’s vision, according to the site, is “to foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded warriors in this nation's history.”

After a decade of war, there are many guerreros among us who need support.

The Wounded Warriors programs are designed “to nurture the mind and body, and encourage economic empowerment and engagement. “

Web Bits

A Night in the ER: Adrenaline, Chaos and Very Long Waits: At Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, as many as 550 patients a day pass through the emergency room. 'It's like a battlefield in here.… It just doesn't stop,' says a nurse supervisor. Read more ...

Groups Investigating E-Mails of Professors in Michigan and Wisconsin Produce No Evidence of Wrongdoing: Two conservative groups that have stirred controversy by demanding that public colleges in Michigan and Wisconsin hand over professors' e-mails related to labor controversies have failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by the scholars from the documents obtained. One of the two groups, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, has blamed its investigation's lack of findings on the paucity of e-mails relinquished by the universities in response to its open-records requests. Read more ...

An Aspiring Student Drowns Out Doubts by Singing Mariachi: “I never thought I would actually end up going to college.” In this episode, we hear from Stephanie Moreno, a first-generation student at the University of North Texas, about becoming a music major and member of the campus’s Mariachi Águilas after attending a summer camp there. Listen ...

Women Apply Strength Developed Fighting Cancer to Triathlon: Judy Tjoe still remembers the terror she felt plunging into the Russian River at the start of her first triathlon. A surgeon, she uses the experience to relate to her patients as they approach the first leg of their breast cancer treatment triathlon: surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. To carry the relationship an extra mile, both physically and emotionally, Tjoe has recruited and guided a group of women through another element of their treatment - to the start line of the Danskin Triathlon on Sunday in Pleasant Prairie. Read more ...