PORTLAND Red Cross Southern Maine Chapter recognizes volunteers for outstanding achievements Recently, the American Red Cross recognized its top volunteers with the Clara Barton Award. These individuals embody the organization’s core values of compassion, commitment, credibility, creativity and collaboration. The American Red Cross Southern Maine Chapter recognized John Leeming of Cumberland as the 2023 Clara […]
I think Sophie Warren of Scarborough has done a fine job for us at the State House in Augusta and I will be gladly supporting her for reelection. She has been attentive, personable and helped me on an issue very important to me as a U.S. Army veteran in Vietnam in 1969. She has been […]
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Re: “Letter to the editor: Military veterans and ICE are not compatible” (March 26):
I’m another Vietnam veteran who concurs with Robert “Sam” Kelley that combining an ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) office with a veterans health care facility is a bad idea – although for different reasons.
Since 2017, 92 veterans who served honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces have been deported to their countries of origin. According to ICE, 94,000 non-citizen veterans reside in our country. All of them are eligible for Veterans Affairs benefits. Many, of course, suffer from war wounds and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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