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On the recordMay 20, 2019
I also appreciate the opportunity to tell my own personal story about how on my last day of work before a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, my employer threw an office-wide party to celebrate my military service, but then fired me just before my deployment training began in violation of federal law.
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Ted Deutch
Democratic · Florida

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Deutch shares his personal experience of wrongful termination related to military service.

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