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Frank Buckles, last surviving U.S. World War I veteran, dies at age 110
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2011 / All Rights Reserved) Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. World War I veteran among the 4.7 million who served– and the last survivor of that conflict’s brutal Western...
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Still Adrift: Congressional inaction sinks hope that ailing Vietnam Navy...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2010 / All Rights Reserved) Ann Langston sent a desperate note to her senator in early June asking for help expediting her husband’s Agent Orange claim. Bruce Langston had...
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Brown Water Bungle: Paperwork error excluded hundreds of Vietnam Navy...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2011/All Rights Reserved) Hundreds of Vietnam Navy veterans whose Agent Orange claims were denied because the VA failed to obtain key military records will receive benefits as a...
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Richard Christian Jr., champion of Vietnam veterans in battle for Agent...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2012 All Rights Reserved) Richard S. Christian, Jr., who endured withering hostility from the Reagan Administration for his meticulous and tireless work on behalf of Vietnam...
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Upside Down Lives: Spouses and parents of severely injured veterans struggle...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2012/All Rights Reserved) By the time Debbie Schulz got help, she had been her wounded son’s full-time caregiver for more than six years. She had lost her husband, her teaching...
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Camp Lejeune’s Toxic Legacy: Marine Corps families who were exposed to...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2013/All Rights Reserved) Jerry Ensminger’s 9-year-old daughter died of a rare form of leukemia he believes was caused by solvent-laced drinking water at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Her...
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Veterans potentially exposed to toxic waste at nearly 140 military bases
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2013/ All Rights Reserved) From Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in California to Fort McClellan, Ala., there are nearly 140 U.S. military bases on the federal government’s...
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Veterans and widows are bewildered by VA’s unpredictable — and seemingly...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2014, All Rights Reserved) When Mary Warner’s husband became too sick to care for himself, she took early retirement and a reduced pension to attend to his needs. It was a...
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‘We are not giving up on him’ — A Colorado community and The American Legion...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2014, All Rights Reserved) Before Gerry Boland went missing, he made his way to Lyons Elementary School to make sure the lights were on for people taking refuge from the floods...
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Green River Gamble: A group of post-9/11 veterans set out to create a Legion...
By Ken Olsen (Copyright 2015, All Rights Reserved) Critics predicted total failure. A handful of veterans were attempting to revive an American Legion post in Green River, Wyo., that was so far gone...
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