Some recent happenings in the citizenship world:

• The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) continues to release state-level civic health indexes, most recently for Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Alabama.
• Writing in The Atlantic, Lindsay Windsor and Arthur Rizer argue in favor of the Stolen Valor Act, a law passed by Congress in 2006 that makes it a crime to lie about being awarded a military honor, such as the Purple Heart or the Medal of Honor.
• New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof has a moving article examining the extreme hardships faced by returning veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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