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Vets groups offer ideas for trimming VA budget

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Major veterans organizations offered suggestions Tuesday on ways to cut the Veterans Affairs Department budget, including scaling back bonuses for executives, mandatory overtime, the size of administrative staff and a costly program for shredding documents.

Hundreds gather for memorial dedication

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A three-year-long campaign to honor the memory of 14 special servicemembers came to a triumphant end on Oct. 24as hundreds gathered atop Arlington National Cemetery's Chaplains Hill to dedicate a new Jewish Chaplains Memorial.

New memorial honors valor of Jewish chaplains

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On a bitter winter night in 1943, four Army chaplains stood on the deck of the torpedoed and foundering USAT Dorchester while hundreds of American soldiers around them prepared to slip into the icy depths of the North Atlantic.

Code Talker

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Twenty-nine Navajo Marines created an unbreakable military code used during World War II. Memories of those glory days are fading, and Chester Nez is the last living original Code Talker.

Obama and Congress Wrangle Over Vet Jobs

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In the face of White House frustration regarding the lack of movement in Congress around President Obama's jobs plan, today the Obama Administration announced two new initiatives designed to help create jobs for veterans, specifically jobs in the heath care field.

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