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Home Front: Culture Wars
One last fight for secret soldiers
2012-03-05
So very, very sad.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  men of the United States Merchant Marine finally received VA recognition in the late 1970's.
Yep, Besoeker, but a couple of years too late to matter to my father...
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-03-05 08:46  

#3  It took the Filipinos years to get recognition as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-03-05 08:38  

#2  If my memory serves me correctly, men of the United States Merchant Marine who manned deck guns against the Axis in the Atlantic finally received VA recognition in the late 1970's.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-03-05 07:03  

#1  not military, no can do. give them their nice own cemetery.
Posted by: gromky   2012-03-05 03:22  

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