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  • Veterans still battling 1973 fire that wiped out millions of service records

    06/05/2014 10:48:55 AM PDT · by US Navy Vet · 22 replies
    FoxNews.com ^ | June 04, 2014 | by Christina Corbin
    While the Veterans Administration struggles to repair the damage caused by shoddy -- and in some cases fraudulent -- handling of health care for American service members, benefits for millions who served their country in four wars were wiped out in a fire more than 40 years ago, leaving many battling to this day to collect their due. The blaze that ripped through the National Personnel Records Center in a St. Louis suburb shortly after midnight on July 12, 1973, consumed 16 million to 18 million official military personnel files long before computers kept such records safe from harm. Few...