Our friend Fran Kent alerts us to an article in the Los Angeles Times concerning legislation now under consideration in Congress to provide benefits to World War II merchant marine veterans, and a surprising degree of opposition to the bill from some veterans' groups. Read the article at http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-merchant-marines9-2009jun09,0,6986058.story.

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