Topic: Veterans

Business for Good: ZeroEyes
Navy SEALs founded a software company that detects firearms on security cameras. Schools, corporate campuses, the Department of Defense — and SEPTA — are signing up.
By Courtney DuChene
The Weird, Hopeful, Dismal, Exciting Year That Was (2022)
Happy to see 2022 in your rear view? Here’s what it means for 2023
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Vet-Owned Businesses in Philly
Support these dozen-plus local businesses opened by local veterans after their military service
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy and Katherine Rapin
How to Support Veterans
We celebrate Veterans Day on Friday. Here, more than a dozen ways to give back to those who fought to keep you free
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
The Citizen Recommends: War Words
This Veterans Day, Philly’s InterAct Theatre is among seven U.S. venues to stage a play culled from real vets’ stories about life in, and after, service to our country
By Jessica Blatt Press
The Disappearing Generation
Thousands of the Greatest Generation have died from Covid-19 this spring. This Memorial Day, we catch up with—and thank—a local 95-year-old World War II vet
By Larry Platt
Citizen of the Week: Michael Bennett
He served our country in Vietnam. Now, the former U.S. Postal worker continues to give back to his community every single day. This Veterans Day, we salute him
By Jessica Blatt Press
Business For Good: Giving PTSD the Attention it Deserves
Since The Citizen last checked in, local startup NeuroFlow has grown and pivoted‚ but its mission stays the same: Providing help to vets traumatized by war
By Meerabelle Jesuthasan