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Guest Editorial:
By Aaron Glantz
The Progresssive Media Project

Insurance companies should not be allowed to cheat the families of dead American soldiers and Marines.

   But that’s what Prudential is accused of: siphoning off hundreds of millions of dollars in interest on service members’ life insurance policies.

   Rather than paying a lump sum to survivors when a policyholder dies, Prudential has been keeping the money in its own accounts, issuing checks to the beneficiaries that draw on those funds.

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>It’s been seven years since Fernando Suarez del Solar buried his son, Jesus. Seven years since March 27, 2003, when just one week into the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Lance Corporal Jesus Suarez del Solar stepped on a piece of unexploded ordnance and came home in a flag-draped coffin. When he died, Jesus left behind a wife and infant son, Erik, who even today doesn’t understand what happened to his father.</p>

<p><strong>New America Media</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
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<p>I came home from Iraq in March 2004, yet I’m still fighting a war, a war here at home. It’s a war of shadows, one that no one seems to really understand. A war of anger and anxiety, fought in the recesses of my mind.</p>

<p><strong>La Opinión</strong></p>
<p>Not even the most decorated and honorable military service can protect U.S. war veterans from ruthless immigration laws, which consider a long list of non-violent crimes as grounds for deportation.</p>
<p>More and more cases have come to light of veterans who, after serving in this country’s Armed Forces and armed conflicts, get in trouble with the law when they come home and end up in deportation proceedings.</p>

<p>Scripps Howard Foundation Wire</p>

<p>Scripps Howard Foundation Wire</p>