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Iowa Vets Finally Have a Place to Rest in Peace

By T.M. Lindsey 7/7/08

Since March 2003, 67 soldiers with Iowa ties have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And now, thanks to the recent dedication of the Iowa Veterans Cemetery (IVC) in Van Meter, Iowa’s latest fallen soldiers will have a final resting place in Iowa, where family and friends can pay their respects.

“This cemetery will be a [...]

Braley Launches Probe into Iowa National Guard Education Benefit Snafu

By T.M. Lindsey 10/25/07

The adage goes: There’s the right way, the wrong way and the Army way. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, intends to find out which way the Army took when it shortchanged thousands of National Guard soldiers on their GI Bill educational benefits, including over 600 members of the Iowa National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry, based [...]

Lawmakers to Propose Job-Protection Measure for Returning Iowa Soldiers

By T.M. Lindsey 10/19/07

The last thing Iowa’s National Guard and reserve soldiers need to worry about while deployed to war is whether or not they’ll have a job when they return to their civilian lives. Knowing this, the federal government passed USERRA (Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act) in 1994 to help protect the soldiers’ jobs, and [...]

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