Veterans


HYDE PARK, N.Y. - Justin Taylan boots up his laptop computer in the climate-controlled comfort of a cafe and clicks on photographs of a World War II airplane lying in pieces amid a steamy jungle on the other side of the world.

WASHINGTON - A new study estimates that health costs for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans could top $900 billion, and a lawmaker wants to set up a trust fund to make sure the bill will be paid.

PARIS - An American World War II veteran has returned an emblematic French flag to the city of Paris more than six decades after he took it as a souvenir.

INDIANAPOLIS - An 43-year-old Indiana man is accused of masquerading as a down-on-his-luck war veteran to scam nearly $500 out of sympathetic good Samaratins.

PHILADELPHIA - The USS Olympia, a one-of-a-kind steel cruiser that returned home to a hero's welcome after a history-changing victory in the Spanish-American War, is a proud veteran fighting what may be its final battle.
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