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Ben Bragdon
Staff Writer
Ben Bragdon is managing editor of the Sun Journal. Prior to that, he was deputy managing editor for news at the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. Ben was previously editorial page editor for those newspapers and Central Maine Sunday for more than 10 years. Before that, he was managing editor for weekly newspapers at Current Publishing in Westbrook. He began his career as a reporter at the Piscataquis Observer in Dover-Foxcroft and editor at the Moosehead Messenger in Greenville. He has a bachelor’s degree in history from Boston University.
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Maine Compass: No better time to remember than on Veterans Day
He was my high school history teacher forty years ago.I called him recently, just to talk. His name is Dave. True blue, dutiful, realistic and well-read; 101st Airborne, 1st Brigade in Vietnam, he saw combat July 1965 to July 1966. He inspired us then, does today. No better time to remember than on Veterans Day. […]
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Our View: Veterans need a strong VA health system
Veterans deserve good, timely care from a system that appreciates their unique needs.
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Gina Barreca: The special bond among veterans: Knowing what it means to serve
Those of us who have never been in the military don’t understand what it is like to serve in the military. My father never wanted to talk about the war. A waist-gunner and radioman on a B-24, he was unlike some other veterans from the neighborhood who traded stories about the places they’d been and […]