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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout: 'Theres no more scrupulous or versatile broadcast journalist than NPRs Daniel Zwerdling. He is one of those reporters who keeps his eye on the sparrow that is, on small details from individual lives that add up to significant issues of public policy. As he described in a special report this week how the United States Army is clarifying guidelines 'that should make it easier for soldiers with traumatic brain injuries from explosions to receive the Purple Heart,' it was mind-boggling to think that right wingers in Congress were at that very moment voting to eliminate the modest federal funds that make such essential and authoritative reporting available to anyone in America who cares to tune in.'

http://www.truth-out.org/npr-the-saga-continues68592

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The honor in war

by Debbie Harbeson
Jeffersonville Evening News

08/11/11

I have been thinking a lot about war lately. This is partly due to the U.S. Postal Service s government-granted monopoly on delivering first-class mail. See, I recently discovered that the stamps with the odd shape I have been using for a while, and slapping on envelopes upside down, are commemorating the Purple Heart. As most of you probably already know, the Purple Heart is an attempt to make us all feel better about the damage done to individuals who were unlucky enough to get physically wounded or killed by our nation-state s involvement in various wars...

http://bit.ly/nyXbN2


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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