Author: By STEPHANIE EARLS The Gazette
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VA issues still plague many veterans; department claims progress being made
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Karl Lippard was a lanky and smooth-faced 17-year-old, 6 foot, 1 inch and 148 pounds of youthful self-assurance, when he joined the Marine Corps in 1962. He left Vietnam on his 20th birthday, after 12 months of exposure to toxic chemicals his country had promised were safe, bearing open wounds and the scars of a…
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Colorado Springs worshippers eschew masks, social distancing, for revival-style rally at Memorial Park
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They danced, sang and swayed shoulder-to-shoulder, clasped palms with strangers and laid hands on their brothers and sisters in prayer. While the shadow of a deadly pandemic certainly underscored Saturday’s Let Us Worship rally in Colorado Springs’ Memorial Park, it didn’t stop more than 2,000 mostly maskless attendees from enthusiastically, joyously, doing what they’d come…
