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		<title>Special VA Benefit for Seniors: A Path to Success</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Monica Grannis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2022 23:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many senior wartime veterans and their surviving spouses could be eligible for a monthly VA benefit if they require care in the home or in a care facility. This is a financial benefit called “Aid and Attendance”. However, most of them and their families are not even aware of it. Moreover, without expertise in this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Veterans Day 2021</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[November 2021 is Veterans Day, a federal holiday that honors and celebrates the service of America’s military veterans.&#160; November 11th&#160;was originally called Armistice Day in recognition of the armistice (a formal agreement to stop fighting) signed between the Allies of World War I. In June of 1954, Congress renamed the holiday Veterans Day in recognition [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day 2021</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 23:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Korean War, sometimes referred to as “The Forgotten War”, started on June 25, 1950, when North Korean tanks drove across the 38th parallel into South Korea. The United States and the Soviet Union had divided Korea along the 38th parallel after World War II.&#160; The Soviets became the administrators of the northern area, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Veterans Day 2019</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2019 22:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”&#160;&#160; -Arthur Ashe Today, November 11, 2019, is Veterans Day, a legal U.S. holiday that honors men and women who have served in the military. Veterans Day was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lest We Forget: The Battle of the Chosin Reservoir</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[During this time of the year, 68 years ago, one of the most iconic battles of the U.S. military took place in the Changjin province in North Korea known as “The Chosin Reservoir.” The name CHOSIN was the Japanese pronunciation, as the U.N. forces used Japanese maps of the area secured after WWII. Flatly described, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Weird Weapons Of WWII</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2018 16:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[BAT BOMBS! Bat bombs! It sounds like something out of a comic book, but in 1943 there was serious research and development for the bat bomb project, dubbed Project X-Ray by the Marine Corps.  Initiated by Lytle S. Adams, a middle-aged dentist from Irwin, Pennsylvania after visiting the famous Carlsbad Caverns of New Mexico while [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Personal Take On The V.A. Aid &#038; Attendance Benefit</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My father died in 1986. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer as he was a heavy smoker starting in his military years just over 18 years old. Ironically, the chemotherapy and radiation treatments he underwent worked and his cancer was in remission. However, after one of those “make-sure it’s all gone” full body scans, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This Day In Military History: March 26, 1945 The Island Of IWO JIMA Is Declared Secured.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2018 05:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looking At The The Battle From Different Angles Most people, especially “baby-boomers” and the generations beyond, have heard of the battle of Iwo Jima and can relate that it was primarily a Marine battle in the South Pacific in WWII and there was a famous photograph taken when they raised the American flag.   Sometimes history [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vietnam, The MedEvac Helicopter And The Wounded Soldier…</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 20:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Despite the swirling controversies that still haunt the nation about the Vietnam conflict, major advancements in medical services emerged from that era and are still employed today saving thousands of military and civilian lives.  Call it one of the ironies of the destructive nature of war. The effectiveness of the medical system in Vietnam can [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vietnam Era veterans recognized</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2017 20:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ray Wilburn spent 41 years of his life in the U.S. Army. In 2012, Pres. Barack Obama signed the 50th Anniversary proclamation, which will continue until 2025, to ensure future generations come to understand the sacrifice made by Vietnam veterans — both on the battlefield, and once they came back to the United States. Wilburn [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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