World War II veterans decry current war
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Walter Brown stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day in a bulldozer, eventually using it to widen one of the roads to bring dead American soldiers from inland back to the shore.
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Servicemen and women who gave their lives fighting for Britain are being remembered across the country in Armistice Day ceremonies.
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CASSINO, Italy (CP) - In the shadows of the Benedictine abbey where German forces held out for long months in the spring of 1944, Canadian war veterans paid tribute Tuesday to the comrades who died in some of the most bitter fighting of the Second World War.
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Leaving their families in barbed wire-encircled internment camps, hundreds of Japanese-Americans enlisted in the Army to fight in Europe during World War II. Arkansas paid tribute to the sacrifice Friday in a four-day event commemorating the history of two camps in the southeastern part of the state, the only ones in the South. Eight camps were in the West.
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Veterans from former French colonies _ many of whom fought to free France from the Nazis during World War II _ will soon be granted better pensions, ending decades of inequality, the defense minister said ...Comment
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World War II had Patton. The Nationals ballpark has Ronnie Strompf.
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Those words evoke powerful emotions for combat veterans of the Vietnam War three decades after they served in a military conflict many believe was undone by politicians and an increasingly disapproving public.
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SIERRA VISTA - Their tales about access to medical care sound a lot like war stories. In a smoky Veterans of Foreign Wars bar in this military town, many Arizona veterans talk bitterly of waiting lists for
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Vets recall horrors of winter offensive.On Dec.22, 1944, Gen. Anthony LC McAuliffe delivered one of the most famous rebukes in history.
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They once were dubbed "weekend  warriors," but Americans serving in the National Guard and  Reserve are being used extensively in the wars in Iraq and  Afghanistan -- far more so than in the Vietnam War.
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PETERSBURG, Va. -- As the World Trade Center rubble smoldered, Sharon Samuel felt determined to do something for her adopted country; she decided to enlist in the Army.
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You'd think the details would be scorched into a veteran's memory like a cattle brand: ducking gunfire, seeing someone die in battle, bracing against a blast's concussion. Who could forget?
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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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Ken Burns, criticized for overlooking the role of Hispanic soldiers in his new World War II documentary, said nearly a half-hour of footage on Hispanic and American Indian veterans is being added to the film.
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Notorious internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept behind barbed wire during World War II will be preserved as stark reminders of how the United States turned on some of its citizens in a time of fear.
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Historians and survivors of Japan's   surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 are using   the latest online technology to preserve their memories of the   day that drew the United States into World War II.
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In a grim marker of the longevity of the Iraq war, children too young to remember losing a parent in action are growing up.