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VETERANS' DAY OR ANOTHER MEMORIAL DAY?

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Since there is no perfect world, this Veterans' Day will be like all the others. It will be a pitiful repetition of mindless praise and promises not kept. The president and other politicians will gather at cemeteries and look over, around and through the living veterans to seek out the granite markers identifying their real audience.

Because"

It's easier to praise the dead than it is to care for the living.

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Larry Scott served four years in the U.S. Army with overseas tours as a Broadcast Journalist in Korea and the Azores and a stateside tour as a Broadcast Journalism Instructor at the Defense Information School (DINFOS). He was awarded DOD's First Place Thomas Jefferson Award for (more...)
 
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