Those that worked alongside Arnold say she would travel anywhere to tell a great story. Her work covering Congress, politics and the environment took her around the globe — to the remote mountains of Mongolia, the Himalayan Mountains and Sri Lanka.

Benno Cleveland, a Vietnam War veteran from Alaska, takes more than a dozen medications daily. He says it’s because he was exposed to Agent Orange, like hundreds of thousands of other servicemembers, during the war.

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