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Vets deserve proper info from DOD to avoid GI Bill debt

These debts are owed by veterans who transferred their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits to a dependent, usually a spouse or child, and agreed to stay in the armed forces for four additional years. Yet DOD allowed them to separate before completing their four years without warning them of the financial consequences.

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This sign was posted Sunday, June 26, 2016, at the entrance ramp to the Long Island Expressway in Queens.<br>Courtesy of Barbara Novak
This sign was posted Sunday, June 26, 2016, at the entrance ramp to the Long Island Expressway in Queens.<br>Courtesy of Barbara Novak

As homeless vet gets place to live, commuters thanked for helping out

A homeless Army veteran who used to collect donations from passing motorists now has a place to live, according to the sign at an entrance ramp underneath the Long Island Expressway in Queens, N.Y.

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This sign was posted Sunday, June 26, 2016, at the entrance ramp to the Long Island Expressway in Queens.<br>Courtesy of Barbara Novak
This sign was posted Sunday, June 26, 2016, at the entrance ramp to the Long Island Expressway in Queens.<br>Courtesy of Barbara Novak

As homeless vet gets place to live, commuters thanked for helping out

A homeless Army veteran who used to collect donations from passing motorists now has a place to live, according to the sign at an entrance ramp underneath the Long Island Expressway in Queens, N.Y.

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Spc. Angel Ruszkiewicz, 21, a combat camera specialist from Milwaukee, Wi., reads a Stars and Stripes at the passenger terminal on a coalition base in Erbil, Iraq, on Monday, Dec. 23, 2019, before a flight to Syria. <br>Chad Garland/Stars and Stripes
Spc. Angel Ruszkiewicz, 21, a combat camera specialist from Milwaukee, Wi., reads a Stars and Stripes at the passenger terminal on a coalition base in Erbil, Iraq, on Monday, Dec. 23, 2019, before a flight to Syria. <br>Chad Garland/Stars and Stripes

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Ombudsman: With no Stars and Stripes, these stories wouldn't be told

Plenty of Stripes’ “local” coverage of the pandemic also cast an enterprising light on the larger story.

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