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September 2009 Headlines

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September 28 - 30

• Scout teaches shooting to injured vets
• 2009 Economics Awards winners
• 15-year-old shares life as a military child
• Vietnam vet honored 40 years later
• Helping homeless Veterans
• VA takes Legion's advice, offers financial help to student veterans

September 21 - 27

• Legion offers help with late GI Bill payments
• Quality over quantity key to overcoming VA backlog
• 76 Freedom Car earns pole position
• Combat vets qualify for refunds
• Marine Corps vet encourages wounded warriors
• Nearly 200,000 applicants approved for Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits
• VA says endoscopy concerns are over

September 14 - 20

• Freedom Car driver takes lead in rookie points
• Legionnaire in space, Kenneth Ham, has homecoming at former high school
• Bill hopes to include Guardsmen who were left out of new GI Bill
• VA warns of telephone scam
• Sept. 16 is American Legion Day
• Senate passes resolution making Sept. 16 The American Legion Day
• Pack your résumé with power verbs
• Group 8 vets invited back to VA

September 7 - 13

• Pennsylvania motorcyclists remember Sept. 11
• Gold Star Mother disgusted with AP decision
• AP photo of fallen Marine infuriates Hill
• Commander: Send our message home
• Commander calls for greater focus on the needs of female veterans

September 1 - 6

• Legion panelists make case for just one GI Bill