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  <pubDate>Saturday, 11 February 2012 5:20:04 AM</pubDate>
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    <title>Losses and Gains</title>
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    <description>A spouse deals with her husband's suicide, and another spouse's separated husband has moved his girlfriend on base with him.</description>
    <pubDate>2012-02-09</pubDate>
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    <title>VA and Sequestration: A Bad Combination</title>
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    <description>"It is my deepest hope that the Administration's inability to make this easy decision is not motivated by politics."</description>
    <pubDate>2012-02-09</pubDate>
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    <title>Dinner with the Smileys: Learning About Cancer</title>
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    <description>A visit with a cancer survivor turns into a valuable life lesson.</description>
    <pubDate>2012-02-08</pubDate>
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    <title>Vets Former Spouse Asks About Benefits</title>
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    <description>"I was told that if I was married for 20 years with 20 years active duty that I would qualify for former spouse if divorced."</description>
    <pubDate>2012-02-07</pubDate>
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    <title>Dinner with the Smileys: January Recap</title>
    <link>http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,241294,00.html?ESRC=opinions.RSS</link>
    <description>Dinnertime can be the loneliest time for separated military families -- but it doesn't have to be.</description>
    <pubDate>2012-02-04</pubDate>
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    <title>The "quot;D"quot; Word</title>
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    <description>Two readers write in -- one going through a tough divorce, another wanting to avoid it.</description>
    <pubDate>2012-02-04</pubDate>
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    <title>Some Fear Paperless VA Claims Won't Help</title>
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    <description>Readers of Tom Philpott's Military Update "Sound Off" on the VA plans to go paperless.

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    <pubDate>2012-02-03</pubDate>
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    <title>Blacklist</title>
    <link>http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,241224,00.html?ESRC=opinions.RSS</link>
    <description>". . . there’s a new-millennium blacklist for American patriots who fail today's political correctness test."</description>
    <pubDate>2012-02-03</pubDate>
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    <title>Range Day - 3 Tips to Keep you Safe and Out of Trouble</title>
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    <description>Going to the firing range could be the high point of your basic training experience -- but not if you screw it up.</description>
    <pubDate>2012-02-02</pubDate>
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    <title>Stop Portraying Vets as Violent and Unstable</title>
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    <description>"We must demand that the myth of the mentally unstable violent veteran be put to rest."</description>
    <pubDate>2012-01-31</pubDate>
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