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April 24, 2025: A long overdue honor for the 6888 Postal Battalion; From flood to fruit

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:48:45
Publish Date: 2025-04-24 18:37:38
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 In World War II, an all women of color battalion solved an enormous backlog of mail between the homefront and the battlefront. Now, they're finally getting recognition with a Congressional Gold Medal. Then, land ravaged by a flash flood in 2013 becomes a budding fruit orchard in Lyons to give back to the community. Plus, training to fight wildfires from the air, the decades-long effort to bring clean water to southern Colorado, and a furniture bank furnishes new starts. 

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