"One impression taken from these meetings is that fishermen are disaster veterans," the study said.
Louisiana's commercial fishermen are "disaster veterans," trying to hang on, while the local seafood industry struggles to recuperate from BP's oil spill, according to a recent study commissioned by Greater New Orleans, Inc.
We in the Philippines consider ourselves natural-disaster veterans.
But from the point of view of the disaster site veterans who remember what the scene looked like in the first days after the terrorist attack, signs of progress are everywhere.
A repeal of state prevailing wage laws would be an economic disaster for veterans---costing nearly 65,000 veterans their jobs, nearly 24,000 their employer-based health coverage, and forcing nearly 8,000 Veteran-owned construction businesses to close their door - permanently.
Team Rubicon, an international disaster relief veteran services organization, is one of my favorite non-profits.
In fact, the international disaster relief veteran services organization has found many former US military personnel who are eager to continue going on missions in service of humanity -- and therefore provide an untapped goldmine of expert volunteers for aid missions.
In the days since the attacks, an enormous wave of charitable giving has stunned even veteran disaster officials.
Virtually overnight, the New York City government has put together a family center for relatives of people missing in the terror attack on the World Trade Center that veteran disaster workers say transcends anything they have ever seen.
Passage of the two-month deal headed off what was seen as a public relations disaster by many veteran Republicans, including Arizona Sen. John McCain, who said that House Republicans' opposition to the deal was hurting the party and that Democrats were winning.
A slow deterioration sets in, the sort we see time and again in survivors of airline, train, and car crashes, in the victims of natural disasters, in combat veterans -- the dazed countenance, the depression, the quick anger, and the unutterable sadness of our fellow human beings who've seen, done, experienced things for which we humans are not designed to endure.
