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• Local Veterans React To Deadly Yountville Shooting

  11-03-2018 11:20
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Veterans at VFW Post 6158 in Fair Oaks say their hearts go out to the victim’s families but they also want the government to do more to help veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.
   
  After serving in Vietnam, Post Commander Mike Moore knows first hand the effects PTSD. The horrific images of combat he says, never go away.
   
  “It affected me,” he said. “It really did. When I came home, I was in bad, bad shape, and if i
  
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• Vet In California Attack Had Trouble After Return From War

  11-03-2018 02:09
  YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The man who killed three women after a daylong siege at a Northern California veterans home had trouble adjusting to regular life after he returned from the Afghanistan war and had been kicked out of the treatment program designed to help him.
  As family and friends of the victims tried to make sense of the tragedy, authorities offered little information Saturday about why Albert Wong, 36, attacked The Pathway Home staff and whether he targeted his victims. Those w
  
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• Report: Gunman In Deadly Veterans Home Standoff Made Earlier Threat

  11-03-2018 00:03
  YOUNTVILLE, Calif (CNN) — A gunman in a standoff at a Northern California military veterans home — ending with the deaths Friday of three women who worked for a counseling program — had previously threatened one of the women, two law enforcement sources told CNN.
  Police officers Friday evening stormed the room where Albert Wong had taken the hostages at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville eight hours earlier, and found the hostages and the gunman dead, authorities sai
  
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