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11.10.2009 9:01 pm

Veterans Day: So many wars, so many sacrifices.

R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch

R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch

On this Veterans Day, its worth remembering that the holiday originally was named Armistice Day, a commemoration of the end, on Nov. 11, 1918, of the “war to end all wars.”

By November 1954, it had become apparent that hadn’t quite…

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03.10.2009 9:00 pm

The Army slow-pays its "stop-loss" bonuses

Troops of the 82nd Airborne Division deploying in 2007. (Logan Mock-bunting / Getty Images)

Troops of the 82nd Airborne Division deploying in 2007. (Logan Mock-bunting / Getty Images)

Last fall, Congress approved spending $72 million to pay $500-a-month bonuses to military personnel whose active-duty service has been involuntarily extended by so-called “stop-loss” orders.

Nearly six…

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05.01.2008 11:28 am

Developments on troops/veterans mental health issues

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

My Wednesday column contrasted the solicitous treatment the government gives to retired senior officers moonlighting as on-air military analysts with the years of continuing struggle faced by active-duty troops and veterans to get decent care for mental problems, including post-traumatic…

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