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Las Vegan’s book reveals husband’s letters from WWII

Fern Jennings of Las Vegas never knew how lonely and loyal her husband was during the Christmas of 1944 until after he died 40 years later and she opened a shoe box full of his letters from World War II.

VA surveillance video deleted

Surveillance video wanted by the House Veterans Affairs Committee for an inspector general’s probe into the treatment of a blind Navy veteran in October during a lengthy emergency room wait at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center has been deleted.

Marine veteran teaches fellow homeless survival skills

A Marine veteran, with help from the Westminster Presbyterian Church’s food pantry, he has been a guardian angel for fellow homeless people living in hidden hooches on the shrub-dotted desert next to the North Las Vegas Airport.

Disabled Air Force veteran helps spread the word in Boulder City

An Air Force veteran talked about her work with the military, her time supporting veterans and her PTSD disability at a Wreaths Across America ceremony at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City on Saturday.

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PHOTOS: Holiday Meals for Military

Some 350 active military families from Nellis Air Force Base received bags of groceries as part of “Operation Homefront.”

Heller: Nevada veterans have longest wait for VA benefits

Nevada veterans wait longer than any in the nation to have disability benefits claims completed, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller said at a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday.

Retired Area 51 commander, U-2 pilot Slater dies at 91

Family and friends will pay tribute to former Area 51 commander and retired Air Force Col. Hugh “Slip” Slater when he is buried Jan. 10 at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City.

Suit: Marine’s body sent home to Pa. without heart

The parents of a Marine sergeant who died while stationed in Greece say that they discovered weeks after his funeral that his body had been sent home without a heart — and that the Department of Defense later gave them somebody else’s heart in its place.

PHOTO: Gov. Sandoval Commemorates Pearl Harbor

Gov. Brian Sandoval joined Chuck Harton of the Navy League Reno Council to place a wreath on the USS Nevada memorial Friday in Carson City in honor of today’s 72nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the U.S. into World War II.

EDITORIAL: Reform the VA

It’s easy to say the United States is all about supporting its veterans, the people who served and sacrificed to protect Americans’ freedoms.

Nevadans sum up VA complaints: long waits, bad attitudes

Long waits and bad attitudes. Those are the most common complaints of veterans who shared their experiences at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities in the Las Vegas Valley after reading about Sandi Niccum’s ordeal in Thursday’s Review-Journal.

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