- 9 years ago Sticky: One Stop Shop for VA Benefits and Resources
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Independent life
The life and work of Paul Nash at the Tate. By Alice Spawls.
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The Mysterious Vanishing of Ambrose Bierce
Some mysterious vanishings manage to strike a perfect balance between the weird, the unexplained, and the victim’s life in general. In some cases these disappearances seem almost fitting, as if they were fated to be and that they could not have happened any other way. One such case surely must be the disappearance of a talented author who wrote extensively of the world of the supernatural and strange vanishings, only to follow suit… By Brent Swancer.
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The Agent Orange Widows Club
After their husbands died of an aggressive brain cancer, the widows of Vietnam veterans have found one another as they fight the VA for benefits. By Charles Ornstein and Mike Hixenbaugh.
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The Fighter
The Marine Corps taught Sam Siatta how to shoot. The war in Afghanistan taught him how to kill. Nobody taught him how to come home. By C. J. Chivers.
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Deja vu for U.S. troops celebrating Christmas in Iraq again
"This is the third Christmas that Staff Sergeant Magdiel Asencio is spending in Iraq. For Sergeant First Class Noel Alvarado, it is number four...." By Stephen Kalin.
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John Glenn Had This Reply To A Politician Who Said He ‘Never Held A Job’
When his Senate primary opponent, Howard Metzenbaum, challenged his military service, John Glenn had the perfect response. By Brian Adam Jones.
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Quiet: A Soldier’s Fight for the Most Silent Place in America
The military’s plan to send newer, more disruptive jet planes over the Hoh and Quinault rain forest region has unraveled not only townspeople throughout the Olympic Peninsula, but the veterans who thought they’d found a refuge. By Madeline Ostrander.
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The New Agent Orange
These veterans say war made them sick. The Department of Defense doesn’t agree. By Jennifer Percy.
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Badass: Virginia Hall
“She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.” - Gestapo transmission regarding OSS agent Virginia Hall.
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Veteran Says Chili's Took Back Free Veterans Day Meal
It was supposed to be a promotion to honor military service, but now a restaurant is under fire after a local veteran said he was humiliated. Angry protestors gathered outside the restaurant was hardly what the Cedar Hill Chili’s expected after offering complimentary meals to veterans in honor of Veterans Day Friday. Supporters of U.S. Army veteran Ernest Walker expressed outrage after watching a video he posted on YouTube of a manager taking back his meal.
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Confessions of an American Drone Operator
He kills enemies halfway around the world by pushing a button. Welcome to the modern age of warfare. By Matthew Power.
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Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses a decade after going to war
Short of troops to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan a decade ago, the California National Guard enticed thousands of soldiers with bonuses of $15,000 or more to reenlist and go to war.
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“I Didn’t Serve, I Was Used”: How Veterans Are Losing the War at Home
Ann Jones examines schemes seeking to use veterans for corporate interests and dismantle the VA system in the name of privatized profits. (Aug. 25, 2016)
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The 8 Most Bad-Ass Women Of World War II
These heroes helped decide the outcome of the war. By Erin Kelly.
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VA hospital’s LSD experiments sped brother’s fall into schizophrenia, Lee’s Summit man fears
Robert Rowland believed he received LSD while in Topeka’s Veteran’s Administration hospital more than 40 years ago. His death launched his brother Michael on a search back through America’s bizarre history of psychedelic drugs. By Joe Robertson.
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The Future of Disaster Relief Isn’t the Red Cross
Team Rubicon began in 2010 with a unique dual mission: providing disaster relief and giving struggling American veterans a vital sense of purpose. The program has a reputation for ignoring best practices and obliterating red tape, and it has already disrupted the aid industry. Now founder Jake Wood wants to take on the Red Cross. By Kyle Dickman.
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On The Appalachian Trail, Combat Veterans Learn To Let Things Go
The first American ever to walk the Appalachian Trail in one season was a World War II vet, who said he wanted to walk off the war. Now, a nonprofit sponsors combat veterans to do the same thing.
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U.S. Still Paying a Civil War Pension
A North Carolina woman is the daughter of a Civil War veteran, and still collects his benefits.
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War veteran slams Trump with powerful message about her own Purple Heart
Trump's statements about his latest gift isn't sitting well with some Purple Heart recipients.
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Mute and Alone, He Was Never Short of Kind Words or Friends
Bernhardt Wichmann III, a Korean War veteran, possessed little except a big heart, and he spread kindness up and down his street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. By N. R. Kleinfield. (July 29, 2016)