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Lawmakers said the change is necessary to help veterans who are being left out.

Some veterans who received a general discharge, but not an honorable one, could be left out of various state programs they now benefit from, including homestead exemptions. A legal opinion released ...

Last month, the Pentagon automatically granted honorable discharges to 800 of the estimated 13,000 veterans who had been pushed out of the military during the 1994-2011 "don't ask, don't tell" era ...