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Surviving spouses of war veterans have been wrongfully denied up to millions of dollars in government benefits over the past 12 years due to computer glitches that often resulted in money being seized from the elderly survivors’ bank accounts.
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Flowers left at the door of the Stamford, Conn. home of Sept. 11 widow Beverly Eckert on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. Eckert was one of the victims of the Continental Flight 3407 which crashed near Buffalo, N.Y..
