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In some cases, such as with mental health,
asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the changes would
lessen the requirements that veterans need to meet to receive a 100%
disability rating.
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Harriet Tubman’s distinction as the first
Black woman in the U.S. military is now being recognized. A scout,
spy, and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, she helped
plan and lead the Combahee River raid in 1863 with the all-Black
2nd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
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Bernard James should have been part of the
U.S. forces that invaded the beaches of Normandy, France, for D-day
in June 1944. Instead he sat in an English prison, convicted of
mutiny and insubordination, a Black soldier who dared question a
white superior officer.
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Detailing what his father witnessed at
Dachau, Reggie Johnson read a passage his father wrote in
his diary. “The odor of death still haunts my dreams 60 years
later. I got there at the tail end of when they were dropping the cyanide-based
pesticide pellets,” George Johnson wrote.
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During the Allied invasion of Normandy,
Carl Felton was serving on board the HMS Ceres, a British ship
manned by a crew from both the United Kingdom and the U.S.
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Dr. Hillard Warren Pouncy Jr. has a
lot to look back on in 100 years of living. One of the last living
Tuskegee Airmen, Pouncy reached his birthday milestone Tuesday
at Presbyterian Retirement Village in Austell, Ga.
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Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise Jr.
was welcomed home to Biloxi on Sunday with cheers from a
crowd of hundreds who gathered near the Biloxi
Lighthouse to see the unveiling of a statue in his honor.
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A Texas hotel will have to pay
up and change its policies after a veteran using a wheelchair was
forced to leave and his reservation was not honored, federal
officials said.
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The choices announced this week by the
Astronaut Scholarship Foundation include astronauts David Leestma,
Sandy Magnus and Navy veteran Chris Ferguson, set to be inducted
June 11 to the Hall of Fame as its 2022 class of honorees.
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A lawyer for the Kansas man who allegedly
drove to the nation’s capital after threatening to kill President
Joe Biden says his client is a war hero who inadvertently killed an
Afghan child in a firefight and is suffering from severe PTSD.
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After five years of planning, the new
Hoosier VA Clinic has opened near Grissom Air Reserve Base,
offering more space, services and health care options to area
veterans.
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