Mark Smith, Howard's co-worker and Army veteran, said he's applied to work with military contractor KBR in Afghanistan.

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Merck won a significant decision in a Vioxx lawsuit, emerging victorious on all counts in the New Jersey case of a postal worker and Vietnam veteran who said that two months of Vioxx use caused his heart attack.

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Donna Martin, a worker at a local veteran's organization, said some suffered injures.

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Growing up I heard of a U.S. Postal worker named Homer Hahus, a WWII veteran and the hardest working member of the Sutter County, California, post office, who passed away within two weeks of retirement having never cashed his first retirement check.

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Veteran number watchers have gotten used to the usual explanation that this apparent anomaly is caused by the discouraged worker effect.

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