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Charles Oliver | 4.2.2012 6:00 AM

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Jerry Miller wants you to know he is still alive. The Palm Bay, Florida, resident and Army veteran says he has been declared dead four times by the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department since July 2010. Each time, the agency cuts off his benefits, and each time Miller calls them and convinces them he's alive.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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