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Maine Veterans Spotlight 9/8/24

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Maine Veterans Spotlight 9/8/24

On the Maine Veterans Spotlight, Jeff Pierce talks to Joy Asuncion, Joy is an advocate for Veterans in the state of Maine, and if there is a Veterans cause that Joy isn’t volunteering to help, then she hasn’t heard of it.  We will talk to the Director of Communications for the Maine Bureau of Veterans Services, Ryan  Lorrain, about the great work they are doing and the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox suicide prevention grant, and we will wrap things up with a trip to Hawaii and talk to the Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission Charles K Djou

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