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Veterans
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Friday, November 28, 2008
Quilters give vets a warm welcome
California | Local |
November 28, 2008
In one corner of the classroom at Prince of Peace Episcopal Church, a group of women knotted blue thread atop layers of star-spangled fabric and cotton batting. Read more
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Hearing echoes of glory
Travel |
November 9, 2008
On Veterans Day, Americans are asked to do something for the country besides voting and paying taxes: We are enjoined to think of those who fought in faraway places – the Philippines, North Africa, Europe, Vietnam and Iraq. Read more
Monday, November 3, 2008
Prop. 12 benefits vets, pays for itself
California | Local |
November 3, 2008
There’s a small, innocuous bond proposal at the tail end of Tuesday’s state ballot that could get trampled if voters are in a knee-jerk, no-spending mood. Read more
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Prop. 12 would help vets become homeowners
California | Local |
October 9, 2008
With hundreds of veterans returning to California from service in Iraq and Afghanistan, voters are being asked to borrow $900 million to provide low-cost mortgages for those who served in the military. Read more
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Psych exams urged for vets
National |
September 21, 2008
Senior physicians with the veterans health system in Los Angeles told the top U.S. military officer Saturday that the Pentagon needs to overhaul the way it discharges troops because hundreds are leaving the armed forces with undiagnosed combat-related mental health problems. Read more
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Iraq war veterans lead protest at Democratic convention
National |
August 28, 2008
About 50 Iraq war veterans led a parade of thousands of demonstrators this afternoon in a boisterous march that is Denver’s largest protest this week. Read more
Monday, August 11, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Sleep is the enemy
California | Local |
August 5, 2008
By the time the sun began to rise one recent Friday over his Mira Mesa neighborhood, Mitch Hood had been up for about 18 hours. Read more
Friday, July 11, 2008
Home loan bond for vets OKd
California | Local |
July 11, 2008
California veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq would become eligible for loans to purchase homes and farms through a $900-million bond act that state lawmakers are asking voters to approve in November. Read more
Monday, June 2, 2008
Duncan Hunter prepares to pass the torch – to Duncan D. Hunter
California | Local |
June 2, 2008
Here in the Republican stronghold of eastern San Diego County, Duncan Hunter the son is attempting to succeed Duncan Hunter the father in the 52nd Congressional District. Read more
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Willing to die, but not this way
National |
April 20, 2008
Minutes after routine surgery for acute appendicitis in October 2003, Staff Sgt. Read more
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Suspect in explosives case worked in Iraq
National |
April 3, 2008
A Jamaican man accused of carrying pipe-bomb parts in checked luggage at Orlando International Airport is a U.S. Army veteran who recently served as a contractor in Iraq, sources said. Read more
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
VA offers 20-minute HIV tests for vets at its care center near L.A.’s skid row
California | Local |
April 2, 2008
The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System began offering 20-minute HIV tests at its downtown ambulatory care center Tuesday – part of a campaign to encourage more veterans to get tested and treated for the virus. Read more
Friday, March 28, 2008
Vets face grim job prospects
Business |
March 28, 2008
Aboard the retired cruise ship Queen Mary – a World War II veteran redeployed as a tourist attraction – former members of the armed services Thursday got an extra ration of employment help. Read more
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
A reality check on the Long March
World |
January 16, 2008
In his dreams, Tu Tongjin is back on the battlefield, a terror-stricken young medic wandering the Chinese countryside with Mao Tse-tung and his fledgling Red Army. Read more
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Kosovo Serbs return to uncertainty
World |
January 13, 2008
To a muddy field lashed by razor-sharp winds, about 50 brave Serbs have come home. Read more
Friday, December 21, 2007
Seeking stamp of approval
California | Local |
December 21, 2007
Months after Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, the
U.S. government imprisoned Robert Ichikawa behind barbed wire in a
desolate World War II internment camp. Read more
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Pearl Harbor memories still resonate 66 years later
California | Local |
December 9, 2007
President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it a “date which will live
in infamy,” words that still resonate strongly for the dwindling few
survivors of the attack that propelled the United States into World
War II. For those servicemen, the six decades since the attack on Pearl
Harbor, and the thousands of miles between the mainland and Hawaii,
fall away. Read more
Friday, December 7, 2007
Few remain who saw the day of ‘infamy’
California | Local |
December 7, 2007
Their ranks thinned by age, Pearl Harbor veterans today are
commemorating the 66th anniversary of the Japanese attack and
wondering whether Americans will remember one of the most defining
moments in history after they die. Read more
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Iraq vets often delay mental reactions
Science |
November 14, 2007
The stress and depression caused by combat in Iraq often don’t
appear until a few months after a soldier has returned home,
researchers reported today. Read more
