Joe Mantegna: Our Returning Troops Need Jobs

Joe Mantegna told the country to hire veterans and he is practicing what he preaches! I just read that he told quadruple amputee veteran Taylor Morris to look him up when he is ready and he'll put Taylor on Criminal Minds.

If you subscribe to this blog, you know I don't have much time for TV anymore but one of the shows I watch all the time, (including reruns) is Criminal Minds. There are times when I think the show could do a better job addressing Combat PTSD veterans coming home instead of showing the harm they can do but at least they do it with compassion.

Criminal Minds' Joe Mantegna: Our Returning Troops Need Jobs
By Adam Bryant
TV GUIDE
May 25, 2012

Criminal Minds star Joe Mantegna has a message for Americans this Memorial Day: Our veterans need jobs.

Mantegna, who will return as co-host of Monday's National Memorial Day Concert on PBS with fellow CBS star Gary Sinise, is also actively working with America Wants You!, a new initiative that encourages corporate America to hire men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Mantegna and Criminal Minds co-star Thomas Gibson have also filmed PSAs to spread the word.
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