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Agent Orange Déjà Vu Vietnam veterans fought an uphill battle to win “presumed exposure” to Agent Orange; and not until 1991 did they gain disability, medical and survivor benefits that the Veterans Administration had denied them for 20...
A Republican to the Rescue?
If you don’t know who Charlie Baker is, you probably don’t follow politics. I can’t say I blame you; I often get the impulse to tune it out myself. But before you turn your attention to something more appetizing, please indulge this wee prediction:...
Armory for the Future
When Melvin Edwards was a student at Springfield’s Cathedral Grammar School, he recalls, the institutions near the school—the Central Library, the Quadrangle, the Springfield Armory—“were essentially my playground.” He and his friends...
Between the Lines: A Gun Owner?s Resentment
I wish I’d said something like, “You can have my hundred bucks when you take it from my cold, dead hands.” I know I’d have gotten a laugh. Instead, I asked the police officer if he’d take a check. I was sitting in the police station in...E-Edition
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