'Bridge Too Far' Vets Honored
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OOSTERBEEK, Netherlands - Sixty years ago, the skies above the Dutch countryside filled with the white silk of parachutes of 30,000 Allied troops while tanks rolled up from Belgium along a narrow road that became known as "Hell's Highway."   In the legendary "Market Garden" operation, which began Sept. 17th, 1944, a massive force that was supposed to end World War II found it had attempted to go "a bridge too far."   A ceremony Sunday commemorated the heroic but doomed assault with Dutch schoolchildren raising flowers above their heads before laying them on the graves of the 1,750 Allied soldiers - mostly British - buried in Oosterbeek near Arnhem...
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NEW YORK, May 28 -- Veterans and active-duty  troops unfurled a 90-by-100-foot American flag as the nation's top commander in the Middle East spoke to a Memorial Day crowd gathered in Central Park on Monday.
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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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The first Medal of Honor awarded for combat in Afghanistan will be presented Monday to the family of a Navy SEAL from Long Island, N.Y, who gave his life to make a radio call for help for his team.
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By Jan A. Igoe, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  May 30--While Army Sgt. Melissa Dion was serving in Iraq last year, she still found a way to surprise her dad with a fabulous Christmas present. Dion chartered the Southern Exposure out of Georgetown for a Memorial Day weekend fishing trip.
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There have been two Medals of Honor awarded since the Iraq war began. What gives? An incensed Vietnam vet blasts the Pentagon's track record of commending its bravest warriors.
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A commander of a Navy boat alongside John Kerry in Vietnam broke a 35-year silence and defended the Democratic presidential nominee&#39;s war record against attacks by other veterans.
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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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Some war veterans in the Green Bay area were offended Sunday when the Packers flew the US flag at half-staff at Lambeau Field in honor of the late Reggie White, the Green Bay Press Gazette reported Tuesday.
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U.S. Army Spc. Gerald Lee Meeks is struggling with the death of one of his best friends. He and other soldiers in Iraq had to carry the body more than a mile back to base: "Those images will always be in your head." The slain soldier has since returned home, receiving a hero's welcome in southeastern Indiana.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush paused on Veterans Day to honor American soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan during his presidency and in wars past.
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By Tatiana Prophet, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Dec. 19--VICTORVILLE -- The emergency-response community came together Monday to celebrate the lives of three of their best.
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War is hell, but personal  bravery never goes out of style. That is the thrust of actor  Stephen Lang&#39;s one-man play &quot;Beyond Glory,&quot; which is having its  New York premiere off-Broadway at the Roundabout&#39;s Laura Pels  Theatre. Adapted by Lang from Larry Smith&#39;s 2003 oral history,  the show is an affecting, if limited, portrayal of eight men  who received the Medal of Honor for valor in World War II and  the Korean and Vietnam wars.
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Bruce Crandall was a soldier once ... and young. As a 32-year-old helicopter pilot, he flew through a gauntlet of enemy fire, taking ammunition in and wounded Americans out of one of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War, Army records say. Now, a week after his 74th birthday, Crandall will receive the nation's highest military honor Monday in a White House ceremony with President Bush.
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Honoring fallen soldiers who died in combat, battle-scarred veterans of World War II returned Sunday to a desolate valley where they trained six decades ago.
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John Kerry's former crew mates vouch for his Vietnam war heroics in a documentary being released in the midst of a campaign debate about his actions as a swift boat skipper.
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Veterans rode in tanks down Allen Parkway in a parade headed for downtown honoring and celebrating the city&#39;s military veterans.