hampton pierceon has the latest. >> reporter: after paying tribute to the nation's veterans at arlington national cemetery. now, the nation is paying tribute for those coming home from iraq and afghanistan. >> our time for our service to our newest veterans has just started. >> reporter: jason served two tours in afghanistan, but when the infantryman came home last year after a medical discharge due to combat injuries, he spent eight months looking for a job, his service and sacrifice overlooked by potential employers. >> they just looked, they said yes, you're infantry, anybody can hold a gun and go to afghanistan. what is your other skill set. >> reporter: he and his wife are on the verge of losing their military health insurance and exhausting his separation pay when jason decided to go to another job fair when he got a job with a richmond telecom company. >> it was life-changing, the night before we went to the job fair, i was laying in bed crying, i didn't know what else to do. >> reporter: in the next five and a half years, an estimatman making their transition, the unemployment ra