The Wall, officially known as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and smaller local versions profoundly impact visitors. During this Veterans Day month, may we never forget the price paid by those who died and those who
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After the “Coming Home”
We’ve all seen those “Coming Home” videos where the kids and the spouse are in class, at work, or at a sporting event expecting to do one thing but here comes their military father, mother,
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I recently took a trip to the VA hospital with my dad, a man who served his country for twenty-three years of his life and sixteen years of mine. At the hospital I saw a lot
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“George Mercer*, for your service in the U.S. Army,on behalf of a grateful nation, we thank-you.” I said those words to George last year on Veteran’s Day, as he sat stoically in his wheelchair,
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by Sandy Kirby Quandt November. The month where we here in the United States take time to give thanks. No. I’m not talking about the fourth Thursday of November, Thanksgiving Day. I’m talking about November
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