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<p>One man slithered across an open field toward a manned tank, climbed atop and chucked in a grenade, saving his exposed company.</p>
<p>Two others held their ground — each alone — firing into enemy thickets while fellow troops escaped and until the heroes, inevitably, were killed.</p>
<p>For decades, those three soldiers, and many like them, were denied the U.S. military’s highest decoration, veterans’ advocates claim, simply due to the last names on their uniforms: Gomez, Pena and Vera.</p>
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<p> Antibiotics, jet travel, the Internet and GPS. </p>
<p> Those are just a few things made possible by military investments that paved the way for mainstream commercial applications benefiting millions of Americans. The same process is going on with the military and renewable energy. And what makes the process today all the more beneficial is the human lives saved and economic gain implementing renewable energy technologies can achieve. </p>
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<p> We hear and see these words every day. The words and their intent are embedded into proposed state laws like Arizona’s SB 1070. Luckily, the federal courts that have enjoined such laws now have another federal employee to point to in their efforts to squelch such emotions and obvious bigotry.</p>
Today (May 26), Senators Menendez (D-NJ), Reid (D-NV), Durbin (D-IL), Schumer (D-NY), Akaka (D-HI), Leahy (D-VT), Bennet (D-CO), and Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the Military Families Act. This legislation aims to provide stability and peace of mind for men and women in the military who have close family members who are undocumented. The bill would allow parents, spouses, and children of active duty military servicemen and women to become legal permanent residents.
According to Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director of America’s Voice Education Fund:
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