Veterans
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Perea Brown-Blackmon named D.C. Teacher of the Year
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Perea Brown-Blackmon, a third and fourth grade teacher at Langdon Education Campus, has been named the District of Columbia Teacher of the Year.
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Wounded vets face red tape, confusion, report says
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Severely wounded service members are sometimes facing more red tape and confusion as a result of reforms meant to streamline military health care.
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Congress ready to pass bill for vets, contractors
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Congress is getting ready to send President Barack Obama a bill helping government contractors and unemployed veterans.
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WW 2 vet: 'I think about the men who didn't make it back'
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Ellis Poole's wife kept the telegram in which he told her he'd made it back safely from fighting Japan, and Poole himself shared memories from his service this Veterans Day.
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The 1987 Veterans Day Snowstorm remembered
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Doug Hill takes you back to 1987 to remember the Veterans Day snowstorm that took the region by surprise.
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Panetta: Air Force to review Dover penalties
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The Pentagon is trying to reassure military families that it has fixed problems in how human remains were handled at Dover, but new revelations continue to emerge.
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Senate passes jobs benefits for veterans
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On Veterans Day eve, an uncharacteristically unified Senate emphatically passed a bill to help unemployed veterans.
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Vets in D.C. fighting unemployment battle
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City officials say there are roughly 6,000 unemployed veterans in D.C. alone, and with the Iraq troop drawdown that President Obama announced just last week, that number is only expected to climb.
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Iraq war vet injured during Oakland protests
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A 24-year-old Iraq War veteran was critically injured by a projectile that struck him in the head during the chaotic conflict Tuesday night.
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Wounded veterans retreat planned in Loudoun County
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A retreat planned in Loudoun County is meant to offer space for wounded veterans to heal.
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Banks cheated veterans with fees, lawsuit claims
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Several major banks and mortgage companies bilked military veterans and taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars, a lawsuit claims.
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Patrick Casey, GW grad student and Army veteran, dies
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Police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding a fight at an M Street McDonald's which resulted in the death of Army veteran and graduate student Patrick Casey.
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Veteran's career fair attracts a thousand former service members
CommentAlmost a thousand former military service members looking for a job came to a career fair for veterans and their spouses Tuesday.
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Virginia to provide housing for homeless veterans
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Two Virginia public housing authorities will receive federal funding aimed at providing permanent living arrangements and case management for homeless veterans.
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Honoring the fallen
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A local man wants to name a road in Calvert County after a Navy Seal who was killed in combat.
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Two vets use golf to heal
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Two veterans have used golf to help them recover from wounds.
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Boy scouts decorate graves in honor of fallen troops
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Local boy scouts visited National Memorial Park this Memorial Day to pay their respects to veterans buried there.
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Wounded vets embark on 360-mile bike ride
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Hundreds of wounded veterans embarked on a Memorial Day bike ride that started in Northern Virginia, and will end hundreds of miles away. The distance they will travel matters less than how far they will have come.
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