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  • Complaint causes VA medical center to pull Duck Dynasty products (Bible-haters win again)

    01/09/2014 7:47:47 AM PST · by NKP_Vet · 19 replies
    http://www.gopusa.com ^ | January 9, 2014 | Albuquerque Journal (NM)
    A Vietnam veteran has taken aim at Duck Dynasty products on sale at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center store in Albuquerque, and it looks like all the items in his cross hairs will be removed from the canteen's shelves. Robert Anderson is one of many people upset over a magazine interview in which Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson made comments they found racist and homophobic. In the January issue of GQ, the 67-year-old TV patriarch calls homosexuality a sin, comparing it with bestiality. Robertson, who is white, also claims that African-Americans he knew during the Jim Crow era in the...
  • Paralyzed vet looks forward to 'greater days ahead'

    01/06/2005 3:52:35 PM PST · by Anita1 · 4 replies · 664+ views
    Omaha WORLD-HERALD ^ | Wednesday January 5, 2005 | BY HENRY J. CORDES
    On the six-month anniversary of the Baghdad rocket attack that left him paralyzed from the neck down, Lathan still exhibits the remarkably upbeat outlook that has helped the Omaha soldier move on in life... Lathan and his family met with reporters Tuesday at the Omaha VA Hospital, making his first public comments since arriving in his hometown from a Boston rehabilitation hospital two weeks ago. Suddenly, a man who once climbed mountains was unable to breathe on his own, pick up a spoon or hug his only son... "I think there are greater days ahead," said Lathan, his wife, Amy,...