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Veterans Day: Witnessing a New Greatest Generation

For generations, Veterans Day was all about old men, and of course, the members of their generation who never got to be old men. These days, it's a different story. Tuesday night, as men and women of the 1st Cavalry returned from Iraq, the pictures were every bit as poignant as those black and white images of GIs coming home from wars past. This week, President Obama invited a more explicit comparison between the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the great wars of the 20th...Full Story
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