Close caption your sermons for veterans

By Christopher Mann for ReSermon.com

​It was very loud in Afghanistan and Iraq, and soldiers often come back with ruptured eardrums and other hearing-related injuries. Captioning your sermon is a huge service to soldiers coming back from the battlefield. ​

Hearing Loss - the #1 Vet Disability

“Among post-9/11 veterans, 414,000 have come home with hearing loss and tinnitus, or ringing in the ears. The most-widespread injury for veterans has been hearing loss and other auditory complications, according to interviews and benefits data.”  Kay Miller, News 21, 8-24-2013. http://backhome.news21.com/article/hearing.
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“Hearing damage is the No. 1 disability in the war on terror, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and some experts say the true toll could take decades to become clear. Nearly 70,000 of the more than 1.3 million troops who have served in the two war zones are collecting disability for tinnitus, a potentially debilitating ringing in the ears, and more than 58,000 are on disability for hearing loss, the VA said.” Associated Press, 3-7-2008, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23523729/ns/health-health_care/t/hearing-loss-silent-epidemic-us-troops/#.VyP9HDArKhc.