windsofchange.net - 11/11/2008
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I spent the weekend with Ehren Murburg's dad, Mike, who I consider a new friend. We ate, drank, and talked, and Saturday night a college friend of his from Princeton was in town, so dropped by for a few hours and we talked about everything except the thing which brought us together.
We wound ...
military.com - 11/11/2008
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military.com —
November 11, or what has come to be
known as Veterans Day, was originally set as a...
U.S. legal holiday to honor Armistice Day - the end of World War I, which officially took place on November 11, 1918. In legislature that was passed in 1938, November ...
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Veterans Day
upper-left.blogspot.com - 11/11/2008
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…to all my brothers and sisters in arms
who made it back. In the company of soldiers...
I have no need to explain myself In the company of soldiers everybody understands. In the company of soldiers, I don't have to pretend to be the person I'm not Or strike that pose, however well-intended, that ...
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Happy Veteran's Day…
youtube.com - 11/11/2008
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youtube.com —
A montage honoring U.S. war veterans from World
War 1 to present day. Pictures and clips together...
with "America the Beautiful," performed by Lee G...
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Veterans Day (video)
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Classical Values —
... linked this post from Armed Liberal , who sees a "need for a patriotic liberalism": ...in my view, liberalism had become identified with a cosmopolitan view that denied the unique place that America has in the world and that wanted badly to reduce America to a country among others. Steve offered the notion that America is an idea, and that that idea is inherently welcoming, and I chimed in supporting him; we are not a nation of blood or land, we are a nation of an idea, and possibly the first great nation that can say that. We need - as liberals, as Americans - to embrace ...
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