Dozens of Flags Are Burned At Veterans' Graves in Wash.
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ORCAS ISLAND, Wash., May 28 -- Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.
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An Iraq war veteran could lose his honorable discharge status after being photographed wearing fatigues at an anti-war protest.
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Relatives sobbed Wednesday at the sight of flag-draped caskets containing the bodies of six Louisiana National Guardsmen killed by a bomb in Iraq.
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The day of ceremony, remembrance was bracketed by fresh scenes of violence in Iraq and Afghanistan and renewed jitters at home.
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South Korean veterans of the Vietnam War held a vigil in front of the White House to demand compensation for their exposure to the toxic Agent Orange defoliant used by the US military during the conflict.
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The makeshift memorials of flowers, candles and children's drawings are gone. So are the black ribbons that hung from balconies and windows as symbols of mourning from one hellish day.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 25--Deborah Stanovich Kriss, refusing to neglect the dead, fumes when she sees the destruction lingering at Biloxi City Cemetery.
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President Bush is invoking the memory of the Sept. 11 victims killed five years ago to argue for a continued military campaign in Iraq before a skeptical American public, drawing protests from Democrats who say he has politicized a national day of mourning.
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The many medical claims by veterans of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has completely overwhelmed the American government, leading to "shameful failures" in treatment, a class-action lawsuit filed on Monday alleged.
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President Bush, a self-proclaimed  war president, on Tuesday opened three days of celebrations  marking his inauguration with a flag-waving tribute to  America's war veterans and those who have fallen in combat in  Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Dozens of protesters yesterday torched China&#39;s red flag in front of the Taipei office of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) and demanded further US clarification about US Secretary of State Colin Powell&#39;s claim that their island is not an independent
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Nevada officials are pressing the Department of Veteran Affairs to allow the family of a soldier killed in Afghanistan to place a Wiccan symbol on his headstone.
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Since Nov. 7, 19 servicemen from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have been killed in Iraq.
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President Bush, visiting America&#039;s most hallowed military burial ground to &quot;honor this place where valor sleeps,&quot; said Monday the nation must persevere in the war against terrorists for the sake of those have already given their lives in this cause.
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President Bush, visiting America&#039;s most hallowed military burial ground to &quot;honor this place where valor sleeps,&quot; said Monday the nation must persevere in the war against terrorists for the sake of those have already given their lives in the cause.
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About 75 veterans and their families gathered under a pavilion Saturday for the first Memorial Day observance at the nation&#039;s newest national cemetery.
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Badly wounded in Iraq, Army Spec.  Rosetta Floyd joined other U.S. veterans at a dedication  ceremony on Wednesday for a new Smithsonian exhibition tracking  250 years of American military conflicts.