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 Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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CDR Samuel W. Asbury, USN (Ret)
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 The Northwest Region contains the following states: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming.
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jgbyrd posted on May 10, 2012 18:49
These days, when I brag on myself as a driver I rarely bring up my best work – the 100 hour push through three divisions of Iraqi Republican Guard behind the steering yoke of a Bradley Fighting vehicle.
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jgbyrd posted on May 10, 2012 18:40
From the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Ivey Green Park in Bremerton to a small obelisk in Silverdale’s Waterfront Park dedicated to the community’s single World War I casualty, the memorials in Kitsap County offer a variety of locations to memorialize our war dead. Another grave, in Port Gamble holds the remains of a [...]
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jgbyrd posted on May 10, 2012 18:39
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) on April 18 introduced the Servicemembers Rights Enforcement Improvement Act of 2012. Murray, Chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee and friend of the veteran community, believes that many of the protections put in place to help shield our nation’s heroes—specifically the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act and [...]
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jgbyrd posted on May 10, 2012 18:38
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee joined with Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) in sponsoring his legislation to increase veterans’ compensation through a Cost-of-Living Adjustment.
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jgbyrd posted on May 10, 2012 18:36
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki recently announced that the department would add approximately 1,600 mental health clinicians to improve the mental health services the agency provides veterans.
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jgbyrd posted on May 10, 2012 18:34
When Sam Powers sat down to paint a mask as part of an art activity for veterans at Olympic Community College in Bremerton, she wasn’t aiming for anything fancy. Powers, a diminutive 30-year-old who wears pink pearl jewelry, is also an Air Force veteran who recently finished a doctorate in higher education. She doesn’t consider herself an artist.
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jgbyrd posted on May 10, 2012 14:01
Declines in VFW membership not as severe in Washington state, getting younger veterans involved remains a challenge
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jgbyrd posted on May 10, 2012 13:52
Alone, Bob O’Neil finishes the last notes of Taps. He stands a moment, lowers his trumpet and wipes his brow with his uniformed shirtsleeve. Sobs from the memorial fill the warm April day at the Tahoma National Cemetery.
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jgbyrd posted on March 23, 2012 14:48
A large brick wall under construction on the waterfront at Marina Park in Port Orchard has been a long time coming.
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jgbyrd posted on March 23, 2012 14:48
A large brick wall under construction on the waterfront at Marina Park in Port Orchard has been a long time coming.
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