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With VFW Members Dwindling, Posts Shutting Their Doors By JEFF BARR   Members of the Mendon VFW Post 4898 from left, Merlin Huff, Morris Ballman, L.D. Ballman, Vernon Yeomans, Sharon Buchner and Ted Talbot are upset their post is closing. (Photo by Jonathon Gruenke)     MENDON, Mich. — Powder-blue paint peels from the surface of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4898. The brick-and-wood building sits next to a farmer's field gone barren for the winter and, like the adjacent acreage, it sits empty.The Mendon post, located south of Kalamazoo, was ordered closed Nov. 24 — 62 years to the...

Reservists, Guard Get A Raw Deal Atlanta Journal and Constitution - The United States is grinding up its soldiers not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, but here at home as well by improperly interrupting pay, medical care and other benefits due injured and sick Army Reserve and National Guard troops and their families. Despite attempts to fix the problem, the Army can't "provide reasonable assurance" that it can deliver what it owes those soldiers. This state of affairs cannot be tolerated. The continued shortcomings were detailed in a Government Accountability Office report and related congressional testimony last month, and follow...