Veterans Past and Present Honored in D.C.
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David Fondren held back tears as he described the Thanksgiving Day attack in Iraq that left his son, Jay, a double amputee.
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Americans remember the victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
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President Bush celebrated the contributions of veterans and active-duty military ahead of the Memorial Day holiday, saying Saturday that the service of U.S. troops in Iraq has produced democracy for that country and made Americans safer.
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Washington -- President Bush bestowed the nation&#39;s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Tuesday on three of the central architects and executors of the war in Iraq, one of the president&#39;s strongest efforts yet at putting a formal
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President Bush paused on Veterans Day to honor American soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan during his presidency and in wars past. As he spoke, U.S. warplanes and artillery pounded insurgents west of Baghdad.
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By Donna Borak, Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.
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President Bush announced yesterday the recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award.
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By Tom M Miller  Editor, Times-Dispatch:  With others, I was twice privileged to visit Normandy battle sites and the nearby American cemetery holding our special heroes.  Among rows of white crosses two bear gold insignias marking graves of Medal of Honorees.
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President Bush honors veterans today with a wreath laying ceremony and a speech at Arlington National Cemetery. He`s paying tribute to Americans who have served their nation in uniform and those who are fighting
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WASHINGTON - John Kerry&#39;s Vietnam War records run to multiple medals and a notation of &quot;conspicuous gallantry&quot; in combat.
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"These World War I veterans raised a generation that did them one better"  CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. Frank Buckles, frail but sharp, surrounds himself with totems from another time and distant lands. via South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Jim Newman, an Army captain during the Vietnam War, stared at the Bell UH-1 Huey Helicopter. "I left a lot of blood and part of my leg in that Huey," he said. Nearly four decades after escaping death, Newman was among dozens of veterans at a dedication ceremony Wednesday for a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit that pays tribute to the service and sacrifice of the nation's battle-worn men and women.
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Half the Kentwood Historical and Cultural Arts Museum is dedicated to an exhibit honoring local men and women who served in the U.S. armed forces. The rest is Britney.
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(CP) - In 1986, Ron Parkes made a pilgrimage to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.
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BELGRADE, Dec 6 (IPS) - The meeting of several hundred World War II  veterans last weekend would not have meant much, had it not been  convened in a town that symbolises so many things about a country  that no longer exists, Yugoslavia.
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Vietnam veterans supporting John Kerry for president made their case Friday in the heart of what was once enemy territory.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 30, 2004 - Residents of the nation&#39;s capital would be able to own handguns and other firearms under a House-passed bill acclaimed by its supporters as a victory for Second Amendment rights