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Three days after Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the region, rescuers face blocked roads and damaged airports as they race to deliver desperately needed tents, food and medicines to the eastern Philippines, where thousands are believed dead. PAge A-3
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Jimmy Davis, who owns his own plumbing and heating company and has paid for his own insurance through Presbyterian for years, says the insurance company’s move to switch him to a new, more expensive plan doesn’t seem like a good deal. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
‘Faces Never Forgotten’ Santa Fean leads effort to collect photos of all those lost in Vietnam War; New Mexico first to meet goal
Costly plans not optimal fit for some self-insured By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
The federal health insurance exchange could benefit more than half a million uninsured and self-insured New Mexicans. But they won’t know until they can finally enroll, and even then, a few may still find the benefits aren’t worth what they’ll have to pay. Lisa Estrada is a single mom in Santa Fe who makes too much money to qualify for Medicaid. Her middleschool-age daughter is three-fourths American Indian, but she doesn’t qualify for health care under the federal Indian Health Services because the tribes aren’t in the United States. Estrada lost her insurance when she was laid off a year ago, but she kept her daughter insured through Presbyterian Health Care Services. She’s tried seven or eight times to enroll through the new health insurance exchange. “It’s been a nightmare,” Estrada said. “But I’m determined.”
Vietnam War veteran Art Canales on Saturday looks through binders that contain a photo of every service member from New Mexico who died in the conflict. Canales spearheaded the effort to track down the photos for each veteran, and New Mexico was the first state to complete the task. KATHARINE EGLI/FOR THE NEW MEXICAN
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Canales of Santa Fe. Just two weeks ago, the group collected the final image they were seeking, that of Sgt. Bobby Joe Martinez of Fort Wingate, who died in May 1968 at the age of 22. For several years, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund has pursued a “Faces Never Forgotten” campaign to gather photographs of the 58,286 men and women who gave their lives during the Vietnam War. All will be honored on the memorial fund’s virtual Wall of Faces. The memorial fund is raising money to mount the images in its education center as well. According to Tim Tetz, director of outreach for the memorial fund, about 32,000 photos have been collected nationwide, leaving about 26,000 more to go. While New Mexico is the first to fulfill its goal, Tetz said Friday that Wyoming was just one photo away from becoming the second state, while other states, including South and North Dakota, aren’t far behind. For the most part, the young New Mexican men in the pho-
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Sipapu slopes slated to open on Saturday By Chris Quintana The New Mexican
There’s good news for winter-sport lovers as Sipapu Ski & Summer Resort — a ski area north of Santa Fe — will open a week earlier than normal, on Saturday. Sipapu, located near Vadito, generally is the first ski resort to open during the winter season, but usually not until the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Mountain manager John Paul Bradley said in a news release that Sipapu has gotten nearly two feet of snow since early October and that crews have since been prepping the mountain for the early opening. Stacey Glaser, a spokeswoman for Sipapu, said one lift definitely will be running by Saturday and a few addi-
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From top, Sgt. Bobby Joe Martinez of Fort Wingate died in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, at age 22. Martinez’s photo was the last image obtained by volunteers in New Mexico for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s ‘Faces Never Forgotten’ campaign. Cpl. Francis Xavier Nava is one of about 18 Santa Feans included in the photo memorial. Pfc. James Michael Moore of Albuquerque died in August 1967 at the age of 19. COURTESY PHOTOS
ou can tell that David Edward Bergfeldt wanted to smile for the color photo snapped in the summer of 1969. He was visiting home in Las Cruces during his second tour of duty in Vietnam. Wearing his dress uniform, he was seated on a couch, his left arm cradling a dog. Bergfeldt likely had darker things on his mind. He died in action in December of that year, three days after his 25th birthday. He is one of roughly 400 New Mexicans who were killed or went missing in action in Vietnam and are being commemorated as part of a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund project in Washington, D.C. New Mexico is the first state in the country to have successfully collected photos of all of its service members — 398 — who didn’t survive the Vietnam conflict. The effort was driven by a team of about a half-dozen dedicated volunteers led by Arturo
Food-stamp diets increase obesity, ailments among nation’s hungriest By Eli Saslow
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MCALLEN, Texas — They were already running late for a doctor’s appointment, but first the Salas family hurried into their kitchen for another breakfast paid for by the federal government. The 4-year-old grabbed a bag of cheddar-flavored potato chips and a granola bar. The 9-year-old filled a bowl with sugary cereal and then gulped down chocolate milk. Their mother, Blanca, arrived at the refrigerator and reached into the drawer where she stored the insulin
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needed to treat her diabetes. She filled a needle with fluid and injected it into her stomach with a practiced jab. “Let’s go,” she told the children, rushing them out of the kitchen and into the car. “We can stop for snacks on our way home.” The family checkup had been scheduled at the insistence of a school nurse, who wanted the Salas family to address two concerns: They were suffering from both a shortage of nutritious food and a diet of excess — paradoxical problems that have become increasingly interconnected in the U.S., especially in South Texas.
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For almost a decade, Blanca had supported her five children by stretching $430 in monthly food stamp benefits, adding lard to thicken her refried beans and buying instant soup by the case at a nearby dollar store. She shopped for “quantity over quality,” she said, aiming to fill a grocery cart for $100 or less. But the cheap foods she could afford on the standard government allotment of about $1.50 per meal also tended to be among the least nutritious — heavy in preservatives, fats,
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tos appear serious, somber and sometimes scared. One Raton youth, apparently sitting in a bunker somewhere in Vietnam, flashes eyes like those of an animal predator. Another New Mexican in his mid-20s sits in the Vietnam jungle, his machine gun within reach of his right hand. He looks like he is about to kill or be killed. “He looks old,” Canales said, viewing the photo. A lot of the men in the photos look old, actually. Others, however, are images of pre-military youth, straddling motorcycles with girlfriends, clowning around with neighborhood pals or cuddling childhood dogs. You see young men getting married, attending proms, riding bicycles,
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Stop expecting kids to cooperate Columnist John Rosemond advises that parents, as authority figures, should expect nothing less than obedience from their children. FAMILY, A-9
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