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Veterans

pinboy3niner

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6. A friend in the VA was working on computerizing records in the mid-'80s

Reply to unhappycamper (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 30, 2013, 05:21 AM

Apr 2013

Eventually that project was scrapped and and started over. That was a quarter century ago, my friend has died, and the goal still has not been accomplished.

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