9/11 triggered the longest, multifront conflict in U.S. history. Guardsmen were there at the beginning. And they have continued to be there the 25 years since.
The leading champion of legislation aimed at streamlining the roughly 30 unequal and confusing Guard and Reserve duty statuses into four broad categories is no newcomer to the need for duty status reform.
My grandfather was a Polish farmer who was a POW during World War II. For five years, he endured forced labor, starvation and torture before being liberated by American forces.