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rom Memorial Day to Flag Day, three hundred flags stand firm just east of AMVETS Post 49 in Cedar Falls. Each flag was purchased by a family that wanted to honor a fallen veteran.

Meeting in-person this year, dozes turned up Monday morning outside the post to commemorate those we've lost. The retiring post commander, Ron Kirkland, says this year stings a bit more.

"We lost members that we shouldn't have. It wasn't their time to go, but the virus caused it," Kirkland said.

MANCHESTER, Iowa — U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, called for tougher border security and a less costly infrastructure package before a crowd of more than 50 constituents, some of whom argued strongly with her, during a town hall Tuesday in Manchester.

It’s the first year in the U.S. House for Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, who has been on the job for nearly five months.

And we had an opportunity to catch up with her Monday on KMCH.

When we asked Hinson what she hears from constituents as she travels through Iowa’s First District, she says there seems to be a few topics that get brought up most often.

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, a Marion Republican representing Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, has had several recent tweets about security at the U.S. border with Mexico.

A May 10 fundraising video on Twitter includes a half-dozen sound-bites from Hinson, all about border security. In one, Hinson says “Why haven’t you been to the border, President Biden? Why hasn’t Vice President Harris been to the border?”

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Military veterans living in rural areas in Iowa and beyond may see greater access to mental health care through a bill making its way through Congress just ahead of Memorial Day weekend.

On Tuesday, the U.S. House passed a bill that would require the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to spend more than a million dollars each year to fund the creation of additional mental health care outreach teams to serve veterans outside of cities and to research the VA's effectiveness with those rural veterans.