Don Bacon: “I think it would have been better to acknowledge, hey, long deployments are hard.”

I heard all the time, ‘do something’ — yeah, well, I’ve got to do something smart.

We have a moral obligation to those we have served with in Afghanistan, who serve by our side, helping us out. We had a promise, and a promises made should be promises kept. Absolutely.

I think it was important for him to level with the American people. This is going to be a tough fight.

The University of Nebraska — and particularly UNMC — is the 'gold standard' for fostering effective partnerships with the federal government and the military.