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...shares of the team were sold to townspeople to keep it afloat. Even though the club is now valued at $165 million, the stock never appreciates. Money goes back into the club, and if the team is ever sold, heaven forbid, the proceeds will go to the local American Legion post. As someone wrote, that American Legion hall would have the best shuffleboard tables in the world...
Five and a half years ago, as the American Legion first noticed an unusual pattern of illness among our Gulf War vets, we made an observation that Mark Thompson only mentioned in his article on Persian Gulf War syndrome [NATION, Dec. 23]. It was clear to us that a variety of factors had to be making our veterans ill. Not every sick vet was in the same place at the same time. In fact, significant numbers left the Middle East before the war started or arrived there some time after the fighting stopped...
...illness we see among our newest group of U.S. veterans. Quick answers are unlikely. Meanwhile, we must honor this nation's commitment to care for people with lingering health problems that have come about as a result of their military service. JOHN F. SOMMER JR., Executive Director American Legion Washington...
...next generation's trivia question. A case in point is Miraculous Medals of the Virgin Mary. Forty years ago, the demure images of the Virgin atop the globe, distributed at First Communions and spelling bees and treasured thereafter, could be found around the necks of a veritable legion of Roman Catholics. Today they have fallen so far from favor that their mention draws blank looks from some Catholic Gen-Xers. Why? Inhibitions unintentionally fostered by the Second Vatican Council may have had something to do with it. And certain women, writes author Sally Cunneen, were "inoculated against" the Virgin...
Rawlins and O'Mary are the candidates who will best represent us on these issues. Negative press by their opponents notwithstanding, these are the only two of the legion of candidates for council president or vice president who have a record they can run on. These are the only two who have proved that they can and do work for--and achieve results on--the issues that matter to us. They are the only two who have consistently demonstrated their progressive ideals and who don't just mouth nice-sounding lines that sound vaguely progressive, but actually put that stuff...