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House Bill: Disabled vets, others would be able to enter Michigan parks for free
Staff Writer -- bhubbard@petoskeynews.comMichigan House members voted Tuesday to grant disabled veterans, prisoners of war and Congressional Medal of Honor recipients a free recreational passport to all state parks and boating access points. Motorists in the Great Lakes state must purchase an...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Personal Data Collection, Wars and Interventions, Prisons, State Parks
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Letters: Debating Guantanamo
Re "Obama's Gitmo woes," Opinion, May 5 As a fan of Doyle McManus, I was disappointed to read his claim that most of the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay were anti-American extremists when they were apprehended. Our own government has...Tags: Religion and Belief, Lindsey O. Graham, John McCain, Wars and Interventions, Prisons
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Guantanamo detainee says prison 'shakedown' sparked hunger strike
WASHINGTON — Obaidullah, an Afghan villager captured with diagrams of improvised bombs, has marked nearly 11 years as a detainee at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Three months ago, outraged by what he called another prison...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Al-Qaeda, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Lawyers
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Obama renews call to close Guantanamo prison
WASHINGTON — Confronted with a mass hunger strike and the use of forced feedings to keep inmates from starving, President Obama broke a long silence on the military prison for suspected foreign terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, declaring it "not...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, U.S. Congress, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Elections
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Medal of Honor goes to Korean War chaplain
WASHINGTON — When men who served in the Korean War with Emil Kapaun describe him, they do not talk about the acts most commonly associated with the Medal of Honor: He fell on no grenades, captured no enemy machine guns, killed no enemy soldiers....
Tags: Religion and Belief, Awards and Prizes, Armed Conflicts, Wars and Interventions, Armed Forces
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Paris auction of concentration camp uniform halted amid outrage
PARIS -- The auction catalog entry for Lot 900 was short, simple and utterly shocking: "CONCENTRATION CAMP -- striped uniform of a political prisoner held in a German camp. Jacket in mixed wool, style grey and Nattier blue stripes. Identification number...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Prisons, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Nazi Party
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Review: 'Free Angela and All Political Prisoners' studies a radical
Documentarian Shola Lynch, who previously profiled Shirley Chisholm's groundbreaking run for president, turns her lens on another significant African American female figure from the early '70s in "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners." Applying her...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Justice and Rights, Elections
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Salvation Army steps in for released immigrants
Staff WriterHumberto Abad Martinez, 53, left his home country of Honduras two months ago to travel to the United States in hopes of finding work. His journey included riding “the Beast,” a freight train that travels across Mexico and is notoriously...Tags: Guatemala, Wars and Interventions, Government Debt, Immigration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Abe Baum dies at 91; decorated WWII officer
Dog-tired, Capt. Abe Baum was snoozing on the hood of a military vehicle when he was shaken awake and summoned to a superior's tent. With worry on their faces, his unit's top officers were clustered around Gen. George S. Patton Jr., who had just issued...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Hemorrhoids, Armed Forces, Consumer Goods Industries, Crime, Law and Justice
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Maj. Gen. John Borling writes poetry of survival
For the better part of four years, Air Force Maj. Gen. John Borling lived in a cell that was about 21/2 paces wide and 31/2 paces long. There were no windows and little ventilation, except for three small holes. One of the holes contained a naked light...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Libraries, Prisons, Book, Arts and Culture
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From Death March to Hell Ships
In 1991, Jan Thompson attended a reunion of World War II veterans who were prisoners of war in the Philippines. She accompanied her father, one of those veterans. "I was just dumbfounded at what I heard," she said. "I walked out saying, 'Why doesn't...
Tags: Alec Baldwin, Wars and Interventions, Robert Wagner, Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston
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Myanmar opposition party meets in open to elect leaders
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.NEW DELHI, India -- Myanmar’s main opposition party led by Nobel laureate lawmaker Aung San Suu Kyi began three days of meetings in Yangon on Friday to elect leaders for the first time in its 25-year history. The fact that the government allowed...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Prisons, Newspaper and Magazine
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