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The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday night to pass long-sought bipartisan legislation to expand health care benefits for millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits during their military service.
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After witnessing the collapse of the two towers on Sept. 11, an Ottumwa native ran to ground zero and has been working to memorialize it since.
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We continue our "Leaving Afghanistan" series with Cera Wilkins, an Iowa Army National Guard medic, who has been thinking about the Afghan women she met during her deployment.
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John Paluska had just arrived in New York City to start his freshman year of college in September, 2001. Soon after watching the World Trade Centers collapse, Paluska volunteered to search for survivors, clear debris and recover human remains. Paluska would go on to serve ten years in the U.S Army as a Green Beret, earning a Purple Heart. He is also a co-founder of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum Visionary Network.
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John Paluska of Ottumwa was an 18-year-old freshman at Fordham University in New York City on September 11, 2001. He watched the south tower of the World Trade Center collapse from the roof of his dormitory. Paluska then volunteered to search for survivors, clear debris and recover human remains at ground zero. Soon after, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and became a Green Beret.
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Brian O'Keefe was military officer, a pilot aviator and served multiple deployments to Afghanistan after 2010. Now retired after 38 years in the military, O'Keefe shared is story as part of the River to River series Leaving Afghanistan.
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Ben Kieffer and his guests examine how flooding has impacted parts of northeastern Iowa and a conversation with Afghanistan veteran Major Justin Foote of Council Bluffs.
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Charity Nebbe and her guests talk about recovery efforts after the August 14 earthquake in Haiti and the evacuation of Afghan refugees to Germany.
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A former member of the U.S. Army Reserve, Shawn Vodenik, discusses his time in Afghanistan as a military contractor in this latest interview for the Leaving Afghanistan series.
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Ben Kieffer speaks to retired U.S. Navy Admiral Michael Franken and retired Army officer and military aviator Brian O’Keefe of Des Moines, IA.