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This is not your grandfather’s debt problem

World War II does provide a lesson for today. Budgetary shortfalls are good in bad times, bad in good times — and horrible when scheduled regardless of the times.

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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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ombudsman

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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Let veterans’ home residents protect their possessions

Regarding the article “RI Veterans Home leadership confronts persistent problem of theft” (posted to stripes.com on June 28): Thefts aren’t the only reported criminal conduct occurring at the state-run residential and nursing facility for war veterans, or the worst.

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