Some of their strides may be a bit slower, but many of the uniforms still fit as generations of veterans showed up at Operation Stand Down Rhode Island (OSDRI) in Johnston last week for its annual …
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By BARBARA POLICHETTI, Special to the SunRise
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9/26/24
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The federal government estimates more than 17 American veterans took their own lives each day of 2021. And more than a 100 more veterans committed suicide in 2021, than the year before.
The …
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By RORY SCHULER
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11/22/23
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The Johnston man, a Vietnam veteran, held a small scrap of paper up to the bowling alley’s fluorescent lights and neon. On the handwritten list he scrawled five names of friends who fought by …
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By RORY SCHULER
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10/19/23
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With a bulldozer in the background, six shovels stuck out of an uncovered patch of dirt. Six indigenous veterans sprinkled tobacco where the shovels met the earth. As a flute played, they dug …
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By DANA RICHIE
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7/20/23
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Most of the shelf space was bare. A few scattered year-old cans of green beans and corn niblets dotted the metal shelving.
Tyrone “Ty” Smith walked into the food pantry and surveyed …
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By RORY SCHULER
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11/8/22
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Richard Esposito of Cranston said he couldn’t wait to get to Vietnam.
That’s not what one expected to hear from an Army veteran who saw 25 percent of his company, …
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By JOHN HOWELL
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10/18/22
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Trinity Rep announces "Veteran Voices," presented as part of the organization's Green Light Ghost Light Project, which will be held on Nov. 6 at 6 p.m. in Trinity Rep's Dowling Theater at 201 Washington St. in Providence. Staged just days before Veterans
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10/29/21
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By URI COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING The transition from life in the military to life on a university campus can be challenging even in the best of times. A regimented schedule may give way to one that is a bit more flexible - but for many student
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By URI COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING
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11/12/20
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By MERI R. KENNEDY Cranston resident Brooke van Eeghen is a major in the Air Force Reserves. She is organizing a ruck march-style event called "e;Carry The Fallen"e; for the charity Active Heroes, along with her friend Jeff Crowley, who is an Army veteran
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By MERI R. KENNEDY
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11/11/20
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