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		<title>The American Legion to DoD: Nonaction Medal is &#8216;Nonstarter&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/05/19/the-american-legion-to-dod-nonaction-medal-is-nonstarter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 13:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; Calling a proposal to award U.S. troops medals for holding fire in a war zone &#8220;misguided,&#8221; the head of the nation&#8217;s largest veterans organization voiced concern that overly restrictive rules of engagement would ultimately cost lives.
&#8220;Nobody likes to see innocent civilians killed in a war zone but the blame for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NC City Named Permanent Host of Legion Baseball World Series</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/05/06/nc-city-named-permanent-host-of-legion-baseball-world-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 22:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown to see if Shelby, N.C., or Bartlesville, Okla., will permanently host The American Legion Baseball World Series is finally over. The National Executive Committee announced today during the Legion&#8217;s Spring Meetings that Shelby won the bid.
&#8220;We are extremely excited and looking forward to being a partner with The American Legion statewide and locally,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legion Member Is Street Vendor Who Tips Police in Times Square Bomb Scare</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/05/04/legion-member-is-street-vendor-who-tips-police-in-times-square-bomb-scare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 17:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Duane Jackson has worked as a vendor, selling pocket books, wallets, watches, scarves and golf clubs, for 13 years at the same spot in Times Square in New York City. He knows when someone has parked a car in a spot where it doesn&#8217;t belong. So when Jackson saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legion Crowns Oratorical Champions</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/04/13/legion-crowns-oratorical-champions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, the level of competition ranked high for the 2010 American Legion High School Oratorical Scholarship Program &#8211; &#8220;A Constitutional Speech Contest.&#8221; The program got underway in Indianapolis this past Saturday with 53 contestants representing each state and ended Sunday with its 73rd champion &#8211; Tori Beth Black, a home-schooled high school junior from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Woman Admits Theft from Legion</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/04/02/illinois-woman-admits-theft-from-legion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) &#8212; A former Madison County bookkeeper has admitted that she stole while on the job and as a volunteer for a local veterans&#8217; group.
Forty-six-year-old Zita Lee pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony theft and official misconduct charges. A sentencing date hasn&#8217;t been set.
Lee admitted stealing more than $10,000 from the Edwardsville American Legion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Vietnam Veterans Target of VA Study</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/03/31/women-vietnam-veterans-target-of-va-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Veterans Affairs is launching a comprehensive study of women veterans who served in the military during the Vietnam War to explore the effects of their military service upon their mental and physical health. The study, which begins in November and lasts more than four years, will contact approximately 10,000 women, and information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legion Post, VVA Hit by Scammer</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/03/31/legion-post-vva-hit-by-scammer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tennessee American Legion Post and Vietnam Veterans of America group are try to recoup their losses after being targeted by a scam artist.

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		<title>American Legion: Commander &#8220;Tweets&#8221; to Reach Young Vets</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/03/24/american-legion-commander-tweets-to-reach-young-vets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the world’s Twitter-philes — Ashton Kutcher, Lady Gaga — you might not expect to find a retired Navy captain.
Aren’t retirees supposed to be confounded by today’s gadgets?
Not Clarence Hill, the national commander of the American Legion. He’s on Facebook. He tweets on his Blackberry. About his meeting with President Obama &#8211; “the Commander-in-Chief sends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legion Wins PepsiCo Grant</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/03/23/legion-wins-pepsico-grant/</link>
		<comments>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/03/23/legion-wins-pepsico-grant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people voted and the troops won. PepsiCo has officially announced that The American Legion&#8217;s Operation Comfort Warriors will be awarded a $250,000 grant from the soft drink giant after finishing first in voting during February&#8217;s Refresh Everything Project.
Internet voters were able to choose which of 729 competing charities would receive grants of $5,000, $25,000, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Legion National Commander Praises 9th Circuit Pledge Ruling</title>
		<link>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/03/14/american-legion-national-commander-praises-9th-circuit-pledge-ruling/</link>
		<comments>http://veteransnewsbureau.com/2010/03/14/american-legion-national-commander-praises-9th-circuit-pledge-ruling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; &#8220;A great victory for common sense,&#8221; was how The American Legion National Commander Clarence E. Hill characterized yesterday&#8217;s ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the phrase &#8220;under God&#8221; in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional.
In a separate ruling yesterday, the Court also upheld the use of [...]]]></description>
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