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		<title>Memorial Day is for the Fallen</title>
		<link>http://www.diversenews.com/2010/05/30/memorial-day-is-for-the-fallen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 04:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Received via email: Major media networks are diminishing or secularizing Memorial Day by including current veterans with remembrances. By including living veterans, it takes away the meaning and spirit of this ultimate sacrifice that those killed-in-action have made. It almost seems that the mainstream only wants us to see that only martyrs can give their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RENOWNED ACTORS GARY SINISE AND JOE MANTEGNA SALUTE OUR AMERICAN HEROES ON PBS&#8217;s NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 03:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diverse News Editor&#8217;s Note: Memorial Day&#8217;s proper meaning is to commemorate military personnel who were killed while on active duty.  Veterans Day is to honor those who have served and are currently serving (over 180 active duty days). Washington, DC, May 26, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — For more than 20 years, PBS has been proud to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Legion and Military Channel Launch &#8216;American Heroes&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 02:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;American Heroes&#8217; Vignettes Premiere During Military Channel&#8217;s Live Coverage of the National Memorial Day Parade on May 31st INDIANAPOLIS and SILVER SPRING, Md., May 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8211; The American Legion and Military Channel have teamed up to honor troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, including three soldiers who never made it back home. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican is Not a Race</title>
		<link>http://www.diversenews.com/2010/05/20/mexican-is-not-a-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 01:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Goldfarb May 20, 2010/ PHILADELPHIA &#8211; With all the recent news of Arizona&#8217;s S.B. 1070 law, a Mexican being beaten and the Mexican president calling the law &#8216;racist&#8217;, does this mean that Mexicans are of a certain race? Last I checked, Mexico is a country. Let&#8217;s switch countries around to see: So, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Legion to Congress: Don&#8217;t Repeal &#8216;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.diversenews.com/2010/05/19/the-american-legion-to-congress-dont-repeal-dont-ask-dont-tell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 02:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; In letters to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader John Boehner, the head of the nation&#8217;s largest wartime veterans organization stated his group&#8217;s opposition to repealing the military&#8217;s &#8216;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; (DADT) policy. &#8220;We feel strongly that the current policy has served the U.S. military well for 17 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Legion Volunteers Make Real Difference in Veterans&#8217; Lives</title>
		<link>http://www.diversenews.com/2010/05/19/american-legion-volunteers-make-real-difference-in-veterans-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 02:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; Practicing what they preach – helping to make a real difference in veterans&#8217; lives – members of The American Legion spent nearly one million hours volunteering at VA medical facilities in fiscal 2009. The nation&#8217;s largest veterans group is also one of America&#8217;s largest volunteer organizations, its ranks populated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Legion Says Vets&#8217; Job Preference &#8216;Ignored by Numerous Agencies&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.diversenews.com/2010/05/16/american-legion-says-vets-job-preference-ignored-by-numerous-agencies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 17:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; Testifying before a House subcommittee today, The American Legion said that veterans&#8217; preference in the federal job market &#8220;is being unlawfully ignored by numerous agencies.&#8221; &#8220;The reality is that employment opportunities are not being properly publicized,&#8221; said Joe Sharpe, the Legion&#8217;s economic division director, in his written testimony. &#8220;Federal agencies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona&#8217;s Illegal Immigration Law and Civil Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.diversenews.com/2010/04/24/arizonas-illegal-immigration-law-and-civil-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 24, 2010 / PHILADELPHIA / DIVERSE NEWS / &#8211; With just 37 minutes into the published story on YAHOO! there were over 33,000 replies. Many comments were relating the law to racism, discrimination and civil rights violations. Only problem with this is that the word civil applies to citizens. Dictionary.com defines &#8216;civil&#8217; as: 1. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veterans Rally to Stop Memorial Vandalism</title>
		<link>http://www.diversenews.com/2010/04/13/veterans-rally-to-stop-memorial-vandalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.diversenews.com/2010/04/13/veterans-rally-to-stop-memorial-vandalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA, April 13 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; Veterans and other volunteers will gather Wednesday, April 14, at noon at the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial to voice their concern over vandalism and to offer their support by patrolling at the site. The Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is organizing veterans and others to monitor activities at the Memorial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Pentagon Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.diversenews.com/2010/03/18/top-pentagon-stories-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[18 March 2010 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates honored women in the military during a Pentagon ceremony March 18. Plus, Reserve Soldiers are reunited with their families. Pentagon]]></description>
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