09/30/2007
from the Kennebec Journal
Rep. Pingree hears varied proposals for health-care solutions
HALLOWELL Fire that cut communications labeled arson
MONMOUTH Police defended after slim budget rejection
State's schools chief to parley
Wasser will lead newsrooms at KJ, Sentinel and in Portland
BRIEFS
Hockey still in picture for Harrington
Portland boxer to face legend's son
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from the Kennebec Journal
from the Morning Sentinel
$1.3 MILLION FOR HEALTHREACH
Families Matter grows to meet special needs
Chellie Pingree listens to ideas on health care reform
FARMINGTON Rain alters plans for 4th of July
District regroups after budget failure
Vote on county budget hits snag
Burnham driver wins checkered flag at 2 tracks on same day
Maine boxer gets unique opportunity
All of today's:
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from the Morning Sentinel
Thirty-five years later and Maine is still discriminating against Vietnam veterans! It reminds me of the '60s whilst I was over there and I wrote to then-Gov. Edmund Muskie to ask what Maine was doing to help its GIs in the war -- yeah, I said war, because that's what it was.
Many states in this country provided numerous benefits and bonuses to its GIs during the period. Muskie's reply was only that Maine provided to the GIs the Togus Veterans hospital.
Well, I thought, Togus was federal -- not state-run, shame on me. Maine had done nothing for the Vietnam veterans and continues to do nothing. Certainly Gov. John Baldacci can waive the toll for the bikers escorting the Vietnam memorial. This is a sample of what the Gulf veterans will have to look forward to.
Frederick W. Naborowsky
MSGT, USAF retired
Vassalboro
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