Mary McCarty
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Mary McCarty is a columnist and reporter for the Dayton Daily News.
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Fatal campus fire prompts push for safety
When a fire broke out on New Year’s Day near the University of Cincinnati, students Chad Kohls of Centerville and Ellen Garner of Tipp City were trapped in a third-floor bedroom with no way out except a stairway filled with toxic smoke. Both died days later from smoke inhalation, ending ...
Veterans can wait years for benefits
It took only minutes for Bill Korber to be sprayed with Agent Orange that rained down on his patrol boat “like they were giving us a shower.” The 64-year-old Vietnam veteran from Dayton has waited nearly four years to resolve his disability claim with the VA — and his case ...
Is Valentine’s Day a manufactured holiday?
I ran into a coworker Tuesday who referred to Valentine’s Day as a “made-up holiday.” (Miraculously, he is still married.) Set aside, for the moment, the fact that all holidays are made-up holidays. This particular one was invented a long, long time ago, dating back to medieval times and the ...
Veterans look for jobs and hope
Tens of thousands of American veterans will be celebrating Veterans Day today without the one thing they want the most — a job. The jobless rate for post-9/11 veterans hovers at 10 percent, well above the 7.9-percent national average. The unemployment rate for all veterans — 8.3 percent — is ...
Mental health services fall short
The government needs to broadly improve its services and flow of information to the growing ranks of veterans suffering debilitating mental ailments from their war experiences, according to a chorus of voices inside and outside government.Larry James, dean of the Wright State University School of Psychology, predicts that post-traumatic stress ...
PTSD fight requires awareness, helping hand
Rodney Barnum of Middletown said he had “youthful visions of glory” when he enlisted in the Marines at age 17. By 2009, after two tours in Iraq, he was reliving a suicide bombing during a Marine Corps Ball, no longer able to deploy because of post-traumatic stress disorder. Instead of ...
Veterans’ wait for benefits is lengthy
Last fall, Edward “Ward” Snyder of Beavercreek was battling two life-threatening illnesses, including cancer of the larynx and esophageal cancer, which doctors attributed to his exposure to Agent Orange during his service in Vietnam. It looked like he would have to do battle on yet another front: obtaining his Veterans ...
Veterans’ wait for benefits is lengthy
Last fall, Edward “Ward” Snyder of Beavercreek was battling two life-threatening illnesses, including cancer of the larynx and esophageal cancer, which doctors attributed to his exposure to Agent Orange during his service in Vietnam. It looked like he would have to do battle on yet another front: obtaining his Veterans ...
Bruce Cromer’s funny Scrooge lifts the spirit
“People never change.”How many times have we said that about a friend or a relative, knowing we must love them as they are — that the hope of significant change may be as elusive as the Cubbies winning the World Series.And yet many of us practice religions founded upon the ...
Slain Marine’s mom set to bring change
Mary Lauterbach, of Vandalia, remains a powerful voice for her daughter, Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, nearly four years after the 20-year-old was murdered by fellow Marine Cesar Laurean.On Nov. 16, Mary Lauterbach and her attorney, Merle Wilberding, attended the North Carolina Court of Appeals hearing in Raleigh, N.C., and listened ...
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