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November 3, 2009
On Saturday, October 31, 2009, Mrs. Catherine I. D Visitation for family and friends will be held on Wednesday, November 4th, 20090 from 5-7:00 PM in HUBBARD FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4107 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, where a Funeral Service will be held at 7:00 PM in the Funeral Home. Interment will take place in Maryland Veterans Cemetery Crownsville. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in remembrance to the American Lung Association.
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By Dan Connolly | October 6, 2009
Will the Orioles spend their extra cash?: The Orioles began this season with roughly $77 million owed in salary - including more than $9 million due to ex-Orioles Jay Gibbons and Ramon Hernandez. By shedding expiring contracts, the club has dropped approximately $46.6 million from the 2009 payroll. Heading into 2010, they have about $30 million tied up in six players. They'll pay incremental raises to many of their youngsters and will face arbitration hikes with several more. But the payroll will start significantly below what it was in 2009 - meaning there should be money to tap this winter.
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By Jacques Kelly | September 29, 2009
John S. Wisniewski, a retired Veterans Administration attorney and decorated World War II Army officer, died of a stroke Sept. 22 at the Frederick Villa Nursing Home. The Catonsville resident was 93. Born in Baltimore and raised in Canton, he attended St. Casimir's Parochial School and was a 1933 Calvert Hall College High School graduate. After completing two years at Loyola College, he earned a law degree from the University of Baltimore. He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1938. During World War II he served in the Army and was stationed in the Philippines and saw combat action at Panay Island.
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By Mary Gail Hare | August 22, 2009
Walter Pasciak, 84, was so eager to move to a proposed $180 million waterfront retirement community for veterans in eastern Baltimore County that he paid $5,000 to be given "priority consideration" on the waiting list. "The location is great, and all the facilities would have been there," said Pasciak, a World War II veteran. Now he doesn't know whether he'll see the money again. On Thursday, the Department of Veterans Affairs terminated its contract with Federal Development LLC, a Washington-based company that had been selected to redevelop Fort Howard Hospital and other buildings at the one-time Army base on the North Point peninsula.
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By Mary Gail Hare | August 20, 2009
After years of delays in getting Fort Howard redeveloped as a retirement community for veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday scrapped those plans and said it will seek a new partner for the project. Fort Howard Senior Housing Association had signed a 75-year lease with the VA in 2004 to build what would have been the nation's largest continuing-care community for veterans. But the project, Bayside at Fort Howard, had become enmeshed in disputes over building permits, zoning regulations and taxes.
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By Philip Rucker | March 23, 2009
WASHINGTON -It was a diverse group of veterans that showed up last Monday morning at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Two retired generals, a blind man, three men with prosthetic legs and one in a wheelchair. They gathered in the historic Roosevelt Room, where Teddy Roosevelt's Medal of Honor is displayed in a corner. For some, it was their first visit to the West Wing. When President Barack Obama came into the room, he shook their hands, thanked them for their service and asked each for his opinion.
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By JANENE HOLZBERG | October 16, 2008
Al Hernandez screens phone calls to his Ellicott City home these days because cancer surgery nearly destroyed a muscle in his right thigh two years ago and he tires of rushing, cane in hand, to grab the handset. Callers hear the Vietnam veteran's taped instructions about leaving a message, followed by a cheery "Semper Fi!" and a rousing recording of a few bars of the Marine Corps hymn. While his sign-off is the abbreviated form of semper fidelis, which is Latin for "always faithful," it would have been easy for the 58-year-old Marine to lose faith after a series of health setbacks left him unable to work and in considerable pain, he said.
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By Laura Smitherman | May 23, 2008
At his final bill signing ceremony, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation yesterday to provide prescription-drug subsidies for seniors, give workers more flexibility with sick leave, and bring transparency to what is expected to be a well-funded fight over November's slot-machine referendum. The governor also signed several bills aimed at benefiting veterans, including a measure intended to help veterans obtain mental health services. Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, an Army Reserve officer who did a tour in Iraq, took the lead on veterans-related bills and said yesterday that the new laws "provide a seamless transition for veterans from combat back into the community."
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March 22, 2008
Soldiers' stories tell a brutal tale Thanks for publishing the column "Winter soldiers" by Madeleine Mysko (Opinion Commentary, March 19). As we enter the sixth year of the war in Iraq, it is important that newspapers such as The Sun let the public hear the horrifying words of those who have returned from the front lines, the winter soldiers. I appreciated how Ms. Mysko, a former second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, wove her story from the Vietnam era with the testimony of a veteran of the Iraq war, Jason Hurd of the U.S. Army, who spoke along with other veterans, their parents and friends last weekend in Silver Spring.
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By Timothy B. Wheeler | February 20, 2008
A proposal by the O'Malley administration to help returning war veterans deal with emotional and psychological problems triggered by their service got a sympathetic hearing yesterday, but key legislators warned that the state might lack the money to meet what all agreed is a critical need. Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, an Army Reserve officer who did a tour in Iraq in 2005, told members of the Senate Finance Committee that the state needs to help veterans suffering from brain injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, which are contributing to high rates of suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, joblessness, homelessness and family breakups.