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	<title>Alaska Veterans Business Alliance</title>
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		<title>Ranks of Homeless Veterans Drop 18 Percent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of Veterans homeless on a typical night dropped 18 percent as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) entered the second year of its campaign to eliminate homelessness among Veterans within five years.]]></description>
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		<title>Ranks of Homeless Veterans Drop 18 Percent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of Veterans homeless on a typical night dropped 18 percent as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) entered the second year of its campaign to eliminate homelessness among Veterans within five years.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/PressArtInternet.cfm?id=1863</link>
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		<title>VA Celebrates Women&#8217;s History Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Veterans Affairs joins with the nation to observe Women's History Month in March by recognizing and honoring women Veterans. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/PressArtInternet.cfm?id=1864</link>
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		<title>VA Celebrates Women&#8217;s History Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Veterans Affairs joins with the nation to observe Women's History Month in March by recognizing and honoring women Veterans. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/PressArtInternet.cfm?id=1864</link>
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		<title>Secretary Seeks Fast Track to Process Claims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today an aggressive new initiative to solicit private-sector input on a proposed 'fast track' Veterans' claims process for service-connected presumptive illnesses due to Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam War.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/PressArtInternet.cfm?id=1862</link>
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		<title>Olympic Gold Medalist Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett to Join Assistant Secretary Tammy Duckworth at VA&#8217;s National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, March 31, Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion Alpine skier Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett will join Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs L. Tammy Duckworth at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass Village, Colo.  The Clinic, in its 24th year, teaches adaptive Alpine and Nordic skiing to more than 400 disabled Veterans annually.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic Gold Medalist Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett to Join Assistant Secretary Tammy Duckworth at VA&#8217;s National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, March 31, Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion Alpine skier Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett will join Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs L. Tammy Duckworth at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass Village, Colo.  The Clinic, in its 24th year, teaches adaptive Alpine and Nordic skiing to more than 400 disabled Veterans annually.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/PressArtInternet.cfm?id=1860</link>
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		<title>Olympic Gold Medalist Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett to Join Assistant Secretary Tammy Duckworth at VA&#8217;s National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, March 31, Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion Alpine skier Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett will join Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs L. Tammy Duckworth at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass Village, Colo.  The Clinic, in its 24th year, teaches adaptive Alpine and Nordic skiing to more than 400 disabled Veterans annually. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/PressArtInternet.cfm?id=1861</link>
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		<title>Secretary Shinseki Announces Gulf War Task Force Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced that the department's Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Task Force has nearly completed a comprehensive report that will redefine how VA addresses the pain and suffering of ill Veterans who deployed during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991.
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		<link>http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/PressArtInternet.cfm?id=1858</link>
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		<title>VA Announces $41 Million in Construction Contracts for San Antonio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the award of two contracts totaling $41.5 million to create a 'polytrauma center' that cares for the most severely injured Veterans and to improve the existing wards at the Audie L. Murphy VA Medical Center.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/PressArtInternet.cfm?id=1857</link>
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