Oprah Winfrey, 11/11/12

Chairman and CEO, Oprah Winfrey Network

My life is better when I get still regularly. Call it meditation or call it quiet time -- doesn't matter. The benefits are the same. If you stay with the practice, it's like developing spiritual muscle. I promise you will become less stressed, more focused.

William Astore, 11/11/12

Writer, Professor, Retired Lt. Colonel, Air Force

Technology is both overhyped and misunderstood in America, and that applies particularly to our enormous investment in military technology. This Veterans Day, we need to turn away from the false promise of robot weaponry.

Doug Bandow, 11/11/12

Senior Fellow, the Cato Institute

I'm not thrilled with President Obama's victory. Still, I have to admit that Mitt Romney's loss left me with at least a half smile on my face. Mostly it's a result of schadenfreude, one of the baser human emotions, I admit. But I just can't help it.

Rita Cosby, 11/11/12

TV Host, veteran correspondent

As the embassy dignitaries solemnly approached me to officially present my father's medal, my eyes immediately filled with tears. They caringly placed one of his country's highest honors into the palm of my shaking hand. It was a profound and overwhelming moment that was decades in the making.

James Brobyn, 11/11/12

Executive Director, the Travis Manion Foundation

Some people don't ask me to explain why certain odors elicit such a visceral emotion. Perhaps they are unsure or even afraid of what I might say next. But for those who want to hear what I experienced in combat, I will always continue. It's a story I want to tell.

HuffPost Radio, 11/11/12

In our "after report," Reagan and Matalin discuss whether 2012 turned on Messina's GOTV or Obama's views on government and taxes. Did GOP lose because of messenger or message -- both? Or is it, as Chou en lai said of the French Revolution, "too soon to tell"?

Dr. Peggy Drexler, 11/10/12

Author, research psychologist and gender scholar

Research shows women may be cheating now almost as much as men. What are the the tolls of new temptations?

Rabbi Michael Lerner, 11/11/12

Editor, Tikkun Magazine

The majority of American voters chose to make the election about something substantive, their own commitment to a world of social justice, environmental sanity, peace, generosity, and kindness, and thus to vote for candidates who were closer to these goals than the Republicans.

Geoffrey R. Stone, 11/10/12

Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago

How could the Republicans have won 55 percent of the House seats at the same time that Mitt Romney received only 48 percent of the popular vote? Did that many people split their vote? It turns out the answer is "no."

James Wright, 11/11/12

Author, 'Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America’s Wars and Those Who Fought Them'

This Veterans Day is a good time to initiate a conversation about a memorial to the veterans who have fought our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our longest wars. Forgetting wars is bad history. Forgetting sacrifice is irresponsible history.

Lisa Belkin, 11/09/12

Senior Columnist on Life/Work/Family, The Huffington Post

Powerful men use sex in ways that powerful women don't. What is unclear is why. Is sex so fundamentally different for each gender that men see it as exerting their influence, while women somehow succumb to it?

Matthew Dowd, 11/11/12

Political strategist

As we have become a more diverse and heterogeneous country (a good thing), many of the participants on the left and right have become less tolerant of each other (a not-so-good thing). The only way to govern this country is to bridge the divides that have become so apparent.

Susan Lisovicz, 11/11/12

Reporter/Teacher/Consultant

My uncle spoke with wonder of the massive aerial response at Normandy that saved him and his men. "At times, there were so many planes in the sky you couldn't see the sky. You could see them forming from all directions into one pattern. And that's how we got off the beach, darlin."

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D. and Geralynn S. Knorr, MS CCC, 11/10/12

We know that traumatic brain injury increases rates of suicide and that it is the "signature injury" of the current wars. Yet it frequently goes undetected, or is misdiagnosed as PTSD or depression. Patients who are misdiagnosed, and therefore mistreated, are unlikely to recover. Instead, they are likely to despair.

Joshua Kors, 11/11/12

Investigative Reporter, The Nation

Forget wearing a flag pin. Or slapping a "We Support the Troops" bumper sticker on your Prius. This Veterans Day push yourself to do something that's actually meaningful. Here are six ways to honor our soldiers.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 11/11/12

Rabbi and Writer

An American hero like David Petraeus who served his country with distinction and honor deserved better than to leave his post in humiliation and ignominy, even if his own immoral actions brought it upon himself.

John M. Del Vecchio, 11/10/12

Army veteran, author

My criteria: Books which influenced my thoughts and writing; books which should still receive attention; and books which help to set the record straight or were part of the early record before the distortion.

Caryn James, 11/11/12

Film and television critic, jamesonscreens.com

Although some hyperbolic early reviews somehow made this sound like the new Citizen Kane, don't expect something other than a Bond film. But Skyfall is terrific, entertaining proof that Bond can age and thrive in the world of today.

Matt Stiner, 11/10/12

Director of Justice for Vets

On this Veterans Day, as we honor the men and women who have sacrificed for our freedom, we must focus our attention on those veterans whose own freedom has been lost to incarceration due to substance abuse, mental illness, and trauma.

Sierra Black, 11/10/12

Writer, activist, mother

While it's a stunning lapse in integrity for someone who was widely respected, it doesn't at first glance seem like the kind of lapse that has a lot to do with running the CIA. Does having an affair make him a less capable leader?

Jack Levison, 11/11/12

Author, 'Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Life'

Can we visualize with prophetic daring, like Isaiah rather than Joel, strategies to equip our soldiers to turn swords into plowshares? Can we imagine, this Veterans Day, effective ways to train them to make peace -- and be at peace themselves?

Howard J. Markman, Ph.D, 11/10/12

Professor of Psychology of the University of Denver and the Co-Director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies

Can you prevent extra marital involvement in your relationship? The answer is that while you and your partner can not completely affair proof your marriage, you can do things alone and together to decrease the risk.

John Dear, 11/11/12

Christian peace activist, author of 'Lazarus, Come Forth!' and 'A Persistent Peace.' www.johndear.org

Like a wise professor, Diane Nash walked us through the methodology of nonviolence/agapaic energy, and urged us to use this power to change our country and the world.