Category Archives: Veterans

Dying veteran protests Spirit Airlines’ no-refund policy

By doris | Published: April 26, 2012

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com Jerry Meekins, who is battling cancer, has a new foe: Spirit Airlines. Meekins recently purchased an airline ticket from Spirit Airlines to visit his daughter in New Jersey. “Two weeks after I bought the ticket, I found out I was terminal,” Meekins, a Vietnam veteran, told NBC affiliate WFLA-TV in Tampa, [...]

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Vets feel abandoned after secret drug experiments

By doris | Published: March 1, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The moment 18-year-old Army Pvt. Tim Josephs arrived at Edgewood Arsenal in 1968, he knew there was something different about the place. “It just did not look like a military base, more like a hospital,” recalled Josephs, a Pittsburgh native. Josephs had volunteered for a two-month assignment at Edgewood, [...]

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Sunday comics plan unique 9/11 tribute

By doris | Published: September 9, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — When you open your Sunday paper this weekend, you’ll notice a common thread in the comics section. Nearly 100 cartoonists — including the cartoonists behind Family Circus, Blondie, The Amazing Spider-Man, Doonesbury and others — are dedicating their strips to those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. [...]

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Memorial Day marked by ceremonies, tributes

By doris | Published: May 30, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Americans from Washington to California are marking Memorial Day with parades, barbecues and special tributes tied to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. An annual holiday honoring the nation’s war dead was infused with new meaning this year, coming just months before the 10-year anniversary.

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Warriors who became walking libraries

By doris | Published: May 28, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Roland Marbaugh wrote 509 pages of his tales of war — from the swampy Solomon Islands in World War II to the frozen Chosin Reservoir in Korea. His son typed them all up on an electric typewriter in the 1980s but unpublished, Marbaugh’s stories remained largely in [...]

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Unemployment on the rise for veterans of current wars

By doris | Published: April 4, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com Washington (CNN) — The unemployment rate for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars reached 14.7 percent in March, according to the latest government statistics. The number of unemployed veterans increased to more than 250,000, up about 40,000 over the previous month’s figures, according to the Department of Labor Statistics. Veterans groups [...]

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Soldier sues, says ‘Hurt Locker’ is his story

By doris | Published: March 4, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A U.S. soldier who defused roadside bombs in Iraq wants credit for inspiring the main character in “The Hurt Locker,” a movie up for nine Oscars this weekend. Master Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday claiming writer Mark Boal — a journalist embedded with his Army unit [...]

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Volunteers lay wreaths at Arlington in holiday tribute to fallen veterans

By doris | Published: December 13, 2009

Full Story atCNN.com Arlington, Virginia (CNN) — For Karen and Morrill Worcester, it’s a campaign that blossomed out of a personal family tradition. But for the families of the fallen, it’s a holiday tribute to remember the sacrifice of those who have given their lives in the armed services. On Saturday, volunteers flooded the grounds [...]

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Vietnam vet: ‘I’m not ashamed to say I shed some tears’

By doris | Published: November 11, 2009

Full Story at The-Daily-Record.com RITTMAN DISTRICT — Asking all 18- and 19-year-olds to stand, Gary Maibach urged Rittman students to look at the teenagers. Those are the ones asked to serve their country in the military, Maibach said, not gray-haired grandfathers. Maibach, who served as a medic in the Army during the Vietnam War, encouraged [...]

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