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Task force begins looking at new Ark. vets' home

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:17:50 -0400

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - A 22-member task force created to look at a replacement for the Arkansas veterans' home that closed last year began working on its recommendations Tuesday, as the state sought additional funding for the new facility.

Air Guardsman reveals his PTSD struggles

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:06:15 -0400

WILMINGTON, Delaware - Wars do awful things to bodies, and Maj. Roger Rodriguez had been a frequent witness. The veteran flight nurse had five post-Sept. 11 wartime deployments under his belt, every one of them spent retrieving the torn and broken bodies of U.S. troops from battlefields and field hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Santa Fe vet credits resource center for help

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:02:15 -0400

SANTA FE, New Mexico - Vietnam veteran John Moore has lived in Santa Fe for 30 years, and for many of those years, he had steady work in construction. He owned a couple of homes. But then he got ill.