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Do you know the difference between a guarantee and a warranty? Go to the Better Business Bureau website to find out.
http://www.bbb.org/council/ad-truth/lessons-in-badvertising/guarantee-vs.-warranty/
Disasters are especially hard for older adults, especially those with chronic illnesses, but thorough emergency preparation can save lives.
As hot, wind-fed wildfires swirled around her town in early September, Darlene Simmons, 76, was busy cooking spaghetti in her kitchen. As a resident of Middletown, a small town in Northern California, she had been through wildfires before. But her home, where she had lived for 45 years, had never been harmed.
So Ms. Simmons was staying put — until a police officer knocked on the door. He told her that she must leave immediately. She grabbed her medications and an address book, but was forced, reluctantly, to leave everything else behind, including her cane and family photos.
National Guard Bureau, General Officer Management Office (NGB-GO) manages this website that holds biographical information on National Guard general officers. National Guard biographies may not have been prepared for some general officers before retirement. If a name is listed, but you are not able to click on a National Guard biography it is not available.
Go to: http://ow.ly/vpRvi
The remains of a Vietnam-era Army veteran are being removed from the Connecticut state veterans’ cemetery because he was convicted of killing three people.
State officials acknowledge that Guillermo Aillon, convicted in 1984 of killing his estranged wife and her parents in North Haven in 1972, had no right to be buried in a veterans’ cemetery when he died in 2014.
The state Department of Veterans’ Affairs on Tuesday removed Aillon’s headstone from the Middletown cemetery and said they will exhume and relocate his body.
The New Haven Register reported that the case was brought to the attention of state officials by Kevin Dacey of East Haven, who found a federal regulation that bars internment in a veterans’ cemetery if that person has been convicted of a capital crime.
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Human remains have been found at an Arizona crash site where an F-16 fighter jet piloted by a student from Taiwan went down, the military said Thursday night.
Luke Air Force Base officials expressed fears earlier that the pilot may have been killed in the crash Thursday morning in a remote area of northwest Arizona.
Today is the third anniversary of the Retiree News website. It has been an interesting ride with a lot of learning about websites along the way.
Learning how to post picture galleries and other website improvements helped improve the product for all Retiree News readers. Check Six postings, Retiree Updates, especially photographs, always generate a lot of views.
BTW: if you have any old photographs you want to share, scan them as jpeg documents and email them to retireenews@gmail.com. Always need help with the names of the individuals in the photographs.
For the record, there have been 2400 postings over the past three years and over 250,000 views of postings.
A warm Aloha and Mahalo to those who to share materials for posting. Special Thanks to Contributing Editor Steve Lum, Billy Chang, Fred Hyun, Bob Inouye, Nolan Kanekuni and Gordon Lau for their continuing contributions.
Look for continuing improvements in the coming year.
Thank you all for your interest in Retiree News.
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Colonel James Madison
In 1775, after serving briefly as a private, James Madison was commissioned as colonel and commander of the Orange County Regiment, Virginia Militia. Colonel Madison was responsible for the training and readiness of his regiment.
Although frail health precluded active service, Madison gained prominence as a patriot and statesman.
In 1776 he was elected to the Virginia Constitution Convention where he helped to frame a constitution and bill of rights. Madison was elected to the Continental Congress in 1780.
In 1781, Colonel Madison was appointed county lieutenant of Orange County, Virginia, and was responsible for all militia affairs in the county including supervising the training of the militia. While serving in the Virginia legislature, he led the effort to convene a national constitutional convention, which met in the summer of 1787.
If not the father of the Constitution, Madison was certainly its prime architect. His Virginia Plan called for a national government with three branches, which would be supreme over the states. Madison also played a critical role in convincing the states to ratify the Constitution.
After serving as a congressman and Secretary of State, James Madison was inaugurated as the fourth president of the United States in March 1809.
Before making changes to commissary benefits, lawmakers should consider the effects on military families, advocates told a panel of lawmakers January 13.
Whether raising prices on some items, or introducing a commissary private label, there are certain effects on the benefit that should be evaluated, said advocates representing military families and the industry that sells groceries in commissaries.
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A Retiree News reader sent in this YouTube link of the Hawaii Air National Guard and the arrival of the F-102 Delta Daggers in 1961. Shows future generals Bob Maguire and Val Siefermann getting leis during the ceremony. Great video!
Check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88csTJ9Qf58
Military members wishing to use their Tuition Assistance at the University of Phoenix are back in luck.
The Department of Defense has lifted its suspension of the University of Phoenix today. That means that military members will once again be able to use their tuition assistance benefits to pay for classes at the online institution.
A furry (or scaly or feathery) friend offers an extra health boost for people living with chronic conditions like diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure by strengthening their tickers.
Whether or not you’ll be required to pay federal income tax on your Social Security benefits will depend on your income and filing status. About 35 percent of Social Security recipients have total incomes high enough to trigger federal income tax on their benefits.
To figure out if your benefits will be taxable, you’ll need to add up all of your “provisional income,” which includes wages, taxable and non-taxable interest, dividends, pensions and taxable retirement-plan distributions, self-employment, and other taxable income, plus half your annual Social Security benefits, minus certain deductions used in figuring your adjusted gross income.
Most Americans eat too much salt on a daily basis, potentially putting their health at risk, federal health officials reported Thursday.
More than 90 percent of children and 89 percent of adults consume more sodium than is recommended in the new 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new guidelines advise no more than 2,300 milligrams (mg) of salt a day — about a teaspoon — for most adults.
“Nearly all Americans, regardless of age, race or gender, consume more salt than is recommended for a healthy diet,” said lead study author Sandra Jackson, an epidemiologist in the CDC’s division for heart disease and stroke prevention.
