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Area DEA agents honored by Congress
The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.A local DEA agent, blinded and nearly killed during a drug mission in Afghanistan, and the fellow agents who rescued him have been awarded the Congressional Badge of Bravery. In October 2011, Drug Enforcement Agency Special Agent Joseph Piersante of the...Tags: Timothy M. Kaine, Woodbridge, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Eric Cantor, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
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Bill O'Reilly: Our many wounded warriors deserve nation's help
Living in the shadows of the ongoing war on terror are 1,715 American military people who lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. A few of those brave folks lost all four limbs when bombs blew apart their bodies. In addition, there are now at least 20 new...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Solyndra LLC, Washington, DC
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Fayetteville amputees overcome challenges
The Fayetteville Observer, N.C.The recovery will be long and challenging for at least 13 people who lost legs at the Boston Marathon last week. But dramatic advances in battlefield medicine and prosthetics since 9/11 could significantly help those amputees return to full and active...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Sports, Armed Conflicts, Bombings, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Westbrook family accepts top award from Army
The Daily Times, Farmington, N.M.Though U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth Westbrook died from wounds he received in combat more than four years ago, the Shiprock native's actions still are being honored. Westbrook died Oct. 7, 2009, at the age of 41 from wounds he suffered a month prior...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Washington, DC, U.S. Army, Iraq
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Dr. Lorenz E. and Anastasia U. Zimmerman
Dr. Lorenz E. Zimmerman, the founder of modern ophthalmic pathology, who spent his nearly 60-year career studying diseases of the eye, died March 16 of complications from an infection at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 92.
His wife...Tags: Heart Failure, Skin Cancer, Washington, DC, Immigration, Nursing
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Worm farming pays off
WSBT-TVELKHART COUNTY – When you talk about farming, you usually think of raising cows, pigs or chickens, but how about worms? That’s the case of an Army veteran wounded in Iraq who is now raising worms as part of a cash crop, but not for fishing....Tags: Fertilizer, Chemical Industry
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Dr. Don-Neil Brotman, dentist
Dr. Don-Neil Brotman, a retired Baltimore dentist and a pilot, died Feb. 16 of heart failure at Sinai Hospital. The longtime Pikesville resident was 80.
Born and raised in Baltimore, Dr. Brotman was a 1949 graduate of City College, and after attending...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Heart Failure, Alzheimer's Disease, Air Transportation Industry
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Mikulski, VA secretary pledge added staff, training in Baltimore
The Baltimore office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation's worst performer in processing disability claims, will receive more employee training, an influx of senior staff and a new digital processing system ahead of schedule, under a...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Department of Defense, Eric Shinseki, American Legion, Environmental Issues
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Iraq veteran on his double-arm transplant: 'It feels amazing'
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.From the moment he entered the room at Johns Hopkins Hospital for his news conference, Brendan Marrocco was a picture of determination. He pushed his wheelchair using his arms and wrists and he smiled, showing off the new limbs. “It feels amazing,...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Iraq War (2003-2011), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Hurricane Sandy (2012), Staten Island (New York City)
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Soldier who lost all limbs in Iraq gets double arm transplant
A soldier who lost all of his limbs in the Iraq War received double arm transplants at Johns Hopkins Hospital last month in a rare procedure that has already begun to restore some normalcy to his life.
Hopkins doctors are to speak in detail about the...Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bombings, Iraq War (2003-2011), Hospitals and Clinics, Iraq
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'The Body Of War' Examines Psychic and Physical Damage Caused By the Iraq War
The Body of War TV host Phil Donahue will be present for Q&A, with EMMY-Award-Winning TV journalists, Ira Joe Fisher and Morton Dean. Friday, Feb. 1, 7:30p.m. The Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 East Ridge Road, Ridgefield, (203) 438-5795,...
Tags: Elections, Armed Conflicts, Iraq War (2003-2011), Paul Ryan, Movies
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Bruce A. Pierce, 84
Bruce Alfred Pierce, 84, of Hagerstown, Md., passed from this life Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, at Julia Manor Health Care Center in Hagerstown. Born July 13, 1928, in Hendersonville, N.C., he was the son of the late Lee Felia and Dorothy Helen (Graves)...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), U.S. Army, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland)
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