Tag: veteran
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December 05, 2009 06:04 PM EST --
home from war …
a parade … flag waving, hugging, a band
patriotism flowed all round hometown that day
I loved the feeling … I had been welcomed … loved . . .
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December 07, 2009 02:23 PM EST --
Bob was a kind and happy man it seemed. For us, he was a great uncle, always with a smile on his face. Yes we had heard the stories of his misadventures derived from a bottle and he loved to tell funny . . .
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April 21, 2008 02:04 PM EDT --
The campaign to become the presidential nominee for each party, especially for the Democrats, has been the most interesting in decades. Which presidential candidate, do you think, will be the most supportive . . .
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July 18, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
PO2 (EOD2) Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for jumping on a grenade in Iraq , giving his life to save his fellow SEALs.
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October 05, 2007 06:27 PM EDT --
My husband, Bruce, served his country in Vietnam in 1968-69. He returned to a country which was ashamed of him and disgraced.. He carried this shame and disgrace with him until the Gulf War Veterans . . .
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November 11, 2007 09:16 AM EST --
Thank a Veteran! Do you know a Veteran? Thank them here! I would like to thank the following Veterans: Tara T., James T., Denny C., Ed B., Ed V., Katie G., Anna A., and any Veteran’s . . .
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June 08, 2008 12:15 PM EDT --
Not long ago, a Veteran's Memorial was built in Bakersfield on Truxtun Ave right across the street from the library and by the Train Station.
This is the full view:
On the other side is . . .
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November 11, 2009 07:02 PM EST --
made special by our wonderful children.. our future son in law was the first to wish his father a Happy Veterans Day.. followed by our daughter who stopped by to spend the afternoon with us and then our . . .
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September 02, 2007 07:54 PM EDT --
A Veteran---whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve---is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount . . .
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June 27, 2007 07:31 PM EDT --
Life started out simply enough for a child born in 1918.
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October 21, 2007 09:18 PM EDT --
A United States Marine was attending some college courses between
assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the courses had a professor who was a vowed atheist and a member . . .
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May 07, 2008 06:09 PM EDT --
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July 07, 2008 03:24 PM EDT --
Thieves Target Paralyzed Colorado Veteran The Keils Suffer A Setback On 4th Of July
PARKER, Colo. (CBS4) -
What kind of person steals from a quadriplegic veteran on the fourth of July?
That's . . .
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August 06, 2009 10:25 AM EDT --
As the wife of a disabled Vietnam veteran, I immediately wanted to find out more about the veteran flying a tattered US flag in Fresno, California despite neighbors' protests.
Weather caused . . .
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November 12, 2007 01:16 PM EST --
They call for war but never served
a call to arms and issues they've swerved
we don't ask if its right
we stand and fight
cause we are duty bound
till taps is sound
and . . .
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September 03, 2009 11:11 AM EDT --
The vaccine left Lopez in a coma, unable for a time to breathe on his own and paralyzed for weeks. Now he can walk, but with a limp. He has to wear a urine bag constantly, has short-term memory loss . . .
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January 17, 2008 11:15 AM EST --
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 16 (OneWorld) - A federal court in San Francisco has cleared the way for a major national class action lawsuit on behalf of veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder . . .
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July 27, 2007 07:27 PM EDT --
Thank You
Have you stopped to thank a veteran today?
For the price of freedom they had to pay?
Did you gaze into those distant eyes?
Did you see the ghosts he can't deny?
Did you think . . .
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August 21, 2007 11:16 AM EDT --
Sometimes my friends send me the most wonderful e-mails! This is one such.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote . . .
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February 11, 2007 12:36 PM EST --
He was 17 when he enlisted, so eager to serve his country that he had his father sign him into the army. It was 1967, and there was no doubt that he would be shipped off to Vietnam. . . .
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