Here's a link to a few infochimps veterans datasets:<p><a href="http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-benefits-expenditures-by-program" rel="nofollow">http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-benefits-expendi...</a>
<a href="http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/national-defense-outlays-and-veterans-benefits-1960-to-2008" rel="nofollow">http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/national-defense-outlays-...</a>
<a href="http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-by-sex-race-and-hispanic-origin-2005" rel="nofollow">http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-by-sex-race-and-...</a>
<a href="http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-by-sex-period-of-service-and-by-state-2005" rel="nofollow">http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/veterans-by-sex-period-of...</a>
Blog post explaining more here:<p><a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/11/07/veterans/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/11/07/veterans/</a><p>Stay tuned for more links to datasets, APIS, etc.