Network of state veterans homes in peril

Thursday, April 29, 2004

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In a Mount Vernon ceremony last month, Missouri opened the last of its seven nursing homes for elderly war veterans -- more than in any other state except Oklahoma.

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