SD Veterans Winter Shelter opens - San Diego's Veterans Winter Shelter opened this week and will remain available for homeless former members of the armed forces until next March. It's estimated that about one-third of San Diego's homeless are veterans. Why AP is publishing photos of US war dead - Since the Obama administration overturned an 18-year ban on covering the return of dead U.S. service personnel, the AP has been the only news organization to document every repatriation for which families have granted media access through the military: 429 of them. Best places for military retirees - Places like San Diego are often considered nirvana for military folks. But they were excluded from the USAA-military.com list because of high living costs. Activist finishes trek to Marine base - A gay man pushing to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell' who marched 56 miles to Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms from Palm Springs was not allowed on the base, but he and retired Marine Cpl. Evelyn Thomas - who is also fighting the policy - met with several Marines. Kathy Griffin starts Palin war at Miramar show - The debates have cropped up over whether or not those comments were appropriate. I thought about it for exactly one minute before typing this. And the answer is ' sure.
