{"id":1635,"date":"2011-06-14T23:08:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T23:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/14\/overlooked-and-cut-loose-by-the-army-veterans\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:31:06","slug":"overlooked-and-cut-loose-by-the-army-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/14\/overlooked-and-cut-loose-by-the-army-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Overlooked and cut loose by the Army, veteran\u2019s life spirals to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By last September, the Army had had just about enough of infantryman Jacob Andrews, so it gave him a general discharge and a one-way bus ticket home to Kansas City. He had plenty to think about on the 30-hour trip from Fort Drum, N.Y.
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