With only 1% of our country currently serving in the Military, most employers today have little idea who our Service members are or what skills they bring to the private sector.

WHITEHOUSE: Helping Veterans 'Get Skills to Work'

Here in the United States of America it was the year that a candidate for president first proposed an idea for young people in our own country to devote a year or two abroad in service to the world.

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall with Young African Leaders