7 Facts on Veterans Day ...

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Ninety per cent of veterans, in 2008, hold at the very least a high school diploma which guarantees literacy and numerical skills of a basic nature. A quarter of all veterans ages twenty five years plus hold a Bachelor’s degree and some hold even higher qualifications. This helps to deter the myth that the military are uneducated.

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A survey showed that back in 2008 over seventy per cent of veterans voted in the Presidential election, this was only sixty per cent for non-veterans. This may be partly because they fought for the country and want to see the best person win, do good things for their country.

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The statistics in two thousand and eight show that a staggering, almost, ten million military veterans were sixty five or older. This is almost half of all the veterans in the US and in my opinion shows that there is still a lot that the new generations of veterans can learn from them.

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In my opinion this is something that should never happen, veterans are taught to serve and protect and most do this. They often witness events that would break the majority of us, both emotionally and physically, yet when they return home some are left unemployed and homeless. In 2008 almost six per cent of veterans lived in poverty because they struggle to adapt back to normal life.

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Statistics gathered in 2005 showed that on average female veterans were earning at least five thousand pounds more in the civilian workforce than those without military experience. Those females with military experience were shown to be earning well over thirty thousand dollars on average.

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Again looking back at statistics taken back in two thousand and eight it was recorded that on the whole there were over twenty three million military veterans in the US. Almost two and a half million of these were black and just over one million were Hispanic.

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During two thousand and eight it was recorded that there were one point eight million female veterans in the United States of America. Many of these women were working mums who worked full time whilst their significant other worked fewer hours than them.

There you have 7 facts on Veterans Day. Hopefully some of these facts should help you to understand more about the military and why Veterans Day can be considered as important.

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