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Veterans Running for Office Put Pandemic Plight Before Politics

Veterans Running for Office Put Pandemic Plight Before Politics
Tyden Brownlee, 5, picks up a free school lunch at Olympic Hills Elementary School in Seattle, Wash., on March 18, 2020. Karen Ducey/Getty Images
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ALIQUIPPA, Pennsylvania—Retired Army Capt. Sean Parnell, a decorated war veteran who served in combat in Afghanistan, found himself doing what he always does when he feels the need to serve.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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