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Chick-Fil-A Gave This World War II Veteran Free Food For Life

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This month, a local Chick-fil-A in Avon, Ohio, took the chain’s usual Veterans Day promotion a step further when they gave a local World War II veteran free food for life.

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8 Of The Worst Places To Sleep

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Benjamin Franklin nailed it when he said, "Fatigue is the best pillow." True story, Benny. There's nothing like pushing your body so far past exhaustion that you'd willingly, even longingly, take a nap on a concrete slab.

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And no one knows that better than military service members and we have the pictures to prove it.

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Airman Injured During Active Shooter Response At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

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It turns out the false alarm about an active shooter at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that led to an airman shooting at a locked door was even more of a Charlie Foxtrot than originally reported: One security forces airmen suffered “a minor injury, a laceration,” during the Aug. 2 incident, base spokeswoman Marie Vanover confirmed to Task & Purpose.

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False Alarm: No Shooter At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

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A report of an active shooter Thursday at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was a false alarm, the base has announced.

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The Best Effort To Fight Opioid Addiction May Be At This VA Hospital In The Center Of America’s Epidemic

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Two months after President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency, the Department of Veterans Affairs became the first hospital system in the country to publicly release the rates of its opioid prescriptions. On Jan. 11, the VA uploaded the opiate prescription rates of 144 of its medical centers and clinics in an effort to increase transparency over how and at what volume the department administers the addictive pain pills.

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Iraq War Vet Can Keep His Ducks For Help With PTSD, Local City Council Says

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There’s good news for an Army veteran in West Lafayette, Ohio, who’d been told his unique approach to treating his post-traumatic stress disorder — a result of his 2005 military service in Iraq — by raising and caring for ducks just wouldn’t fly.

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