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After Decades Stored In Basement, 4 Military Vets Finally Laid To Rest

Posted 08.16.2012 | Impact
Read More: Mental Illness, Department of Veterans Affairs, Video, Va, Military Burial, Military Honors, Oregon State Hospital, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Willamette National Cemetery, Military Veterans, Oregon, Impact News

For decades, they were numbers on copper canisters hidden in a storage room at Oregon's state-run mental hospital. Unclaimed, unknown, unhonored. B...

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Mike Sacks

Supreme Court Says It's No Crime To Lie About Military Honors

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 06.28.2012 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Liars, Stolen Valor Act, Lies, First Amendment, Video, California, Military Honors, Xavier Alvarez, Military Medals, United States v. Alvarez, Supreme Court Stolen Valor Act, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Congress improperly criminalized lies about receiving military honors, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. In striking down the Stol...

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Mike Sacks

Supreme Court Debates Lying About Military Honors

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 02.22.2012 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Liars, Lies, First Amendment, California, Military Honors, Antonin Scalia, United States v. Alvarez, U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Stolen Valor Act, Video, Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Military Medals, Xavier Alvarez, Anthony Kennedy, Elena Kagan, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday morning appeared divided over whether to strike down a federal law that makes it a crime for a person to ...

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Rare Medal Awarded To Soldier Who Saved Comrades From Drowning

Posted 10.26.2011 | Home
Read More: Soldiers Medal, Matt Blaine Soldiers Medal, Matt Blaine, U.S. Soldiers, Afghanistan, Medals, Military Honors, Military Medals, Heroism, U.S. Army, Afghanistan War, Video, Home News

Former Staff Sgt. Matt Blain joined an elite group of soldiers when he was awarded with the rare 'Soldier's Medal' for heroism Saturday. Blain rece...

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Andrea Stone

More Stars On Those Bars: Pentagon Okays Changes For Iraq, Afghanistan Medal To Reflect Long War

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 08.30.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iraq War, Afghanistan, Military-Medals, Military Honors, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Defense Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- On the day the Pentagon said combat deaths reached a three-year high in Iraq and a brazen attack on a Kabul hotel demonstrated the war t...

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