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Articles in May, 2002 issue of VFW Magazine

• USS Walke stirs memories
• Rolling Thunder ride to the wall
• Marines, special ops work together
  by Tim Dyhouse
• Afghan War, VA care top conference agenda: with the nation on a war footing, VFW's annual `march on the hill' was even more urgent this year. In addition to the main objective of taking veterans concerns directly to lawmakers, the VFW Legislative Conferen
  by Tim Dyhouse
• Expanding membership eligibility
  by Joseph R. Keezer
• Pro Football Hall of Fame Veterans Exhibit
• $1,500 VA deductible rejected
  by Tim Dyhouse
• `White Tigers' prowled North Korea: during the Korean War, U.S. Army advisers helped North Korean guerrillas strike the Communists behind enemy lines. Until the 1990s, these missions remained largely unknown. Their members' sacrifices deserve to be widely
  by Ben S. Malcom
• Prostate cancer awareness campaign
• Agent Orange/leukemia link discounted
  by Tim Dyhouse
• Thanking vets, Kansas style: students from Kansas City give four days of their summer, running to raise $6,000 for homeless and hospitalized Kansas veterans in 2001
  by Shannon Hanson
• Civilian valor in Vietnam
  by John (American novelist) Hopkins
• Oldest American veteran named
• National D-day Foundation
• WWII memorial construction `on schedule'
  by Tim Dyhouse
• VFW to take Nashville by storm; the `country music capital of the world' will be the site of VFW's 103rd National Convention—one you don't want to miss
  by Janie D. Blankenship
• Are public double standards at work?
• Navy memorial log
• Memorializing America's `domestic soldiers'
  by Richard Kolb
• Memorial Day: fulfilling, a sacred obligation: VFW and Ladies Auxiliary members come out in full force on Memorial Day to pay tribute to Americans who died serving their country in wartime
• VFW pictured in postal service book
• Angel Flight America
• Battle of Shahi Kot Valley: in the largest U.S. light infantry battle in years. GIs took the terrorists head on. But eight Americans were killed in action
• Afghan War producing veterans eligible for VFW: army badges and Marine ribbons being earned in Afghanistan are now qualifying combat vets for VFW membership. A campaign medal, no doubt, will be forthcoming in the near future
• Viet vet nominated for surgeon general
• Reunions & claims
• Afghanistan combat patches Ok'd
  by Tim Dyhouse
• Monumental decisions: memorials under way to honor victims of Sept. 11: from flowers at fence lines to towering beams of light, Americans remember those who died in the terrorist attacks until permanent memorials are built
  by Shannon Hanson
• Islamic world sees U.S. negatively
• Guardsmen want guns on U.S. borders
  by Tim Dyhouse
• `Shoulder-to-shoulder': combatting terrorists in the Philippines: more than 600 U.S. troops are training Filipinos to eradicate Muslim extremists on Basilan Island
  by Tim Dyhouse
• At the joint hearing of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees, the Chief stressed VFW's legislative priorities
  by James N. Goldsmith
• Liberty Memorial rededication
• Gulf War pilot still alive?
  by Tim Dyhouse
• Battling at Bayan: on May 2, 1902, the U.S. Army fought its last major engagement of the Philippines War, and launched a new war against the Islamic Moros of Mindanao
• Diabetes awareness a worthy cause
• National Memorial Day Concert
• Women in combat arms de-emphasized
  by Tim Dyhouse
• `Like a mad tiger': fighting Islamic warriors in the Philippines 100 years ago: exactly a century ago, America began a war against one of its fiercest foes—the Moros of the southern Philippines
  by Richard K. Kolb