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Transcript: Stimulus To Repay Debt To WWII Filipino Veterans
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- February 23, 2009
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STEVE INSKEEP
NPR Morning Edition
02-23-2009
Stimulus To Repay Debt To WWII Filipino Veterans
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time 11:00-12:00 PM
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STEVE INSKEEP, host:
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep.
Most of the stimulus money flowing from Washington is intended to create jobs or preserve them. But some of the money - $198 million, to be precise - will be used to pay an old debt. It goes to Filipino veterans of World War II. They helped the United States defeat Japan in the Pacific. The Filipino fighters never got the money that America promised them.
And as NPR's Richard Gonzales reports, some of them clearly need it now.
RICHARD GONZALES: The men who ...
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