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Joe Walsh Welcomes Wounded Warriors Home
Longtime Eagles and James Gang guitarist Joe Walsh, whose 1991 solo album is titled Ordinary Average Guy, recently visited a group of extraordinary guys at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. The musician sang songs, signed autographs...
Tags: Music, Joe Walsh, Washington, DC, Entertainment
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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: Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Defense, Hamid Karzai, Washington, DC, Central Intelligence Agency
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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: Health and Safety at School, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Japan, Korean War (1950-1953), Arlington (Staten Island, New York)
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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: Chemical Industry, Fertilizer
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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: Federal Aviation Administration, Heart Failure, Bars and Clubs, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Sinai Hospital in Baltimore
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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: Environmental Issues, Injuries and Wounds, Conservation, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Congress
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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: Staten Island (New York City), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Johns Hopkins Hospital
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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: Bombings, U.S. Army, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Staten Island (New York City), 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: Politics, White House, Movies, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Correspondents (music group)
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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: U.S. Army, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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A fitting tribute
The legacy of a man known for helping those who served in the military will be preserved in the naming of a cancer center. The late Congressman, U.S. Rep. John P. Murtha, a Democrat from Johnstown, had a reputation of working with those in the...Tags: Healthcare Provider, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), John P Murtha, Medical Research, U.S. Department of Defense
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Bob Dole released from hospital
Kansas native and former senator Bob Dole is out of the hospital. The former majority leader and 1996 Republican presidential nominee was released from Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Wednesday according to reports. Dole checked himself into this...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Bob Dole, Hospitals and Clinics
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