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On Veterans Day, remember those who truly deserve our gratitude
Veterans Day has come around again as it does every fall, arriving with a new crispness in the air, the woods painted in glorious color and the days of a year that seemed new just yesterday now dwindled to a precious few.
If none of those signs had signaled its arrival, the advertising of big sales at the malls would have reminded those without more personal and less commercial ties to military service.
In this year the last living British veteran of World War I died. The last American combat veteran of The Great War died in 2007 at age 108. The Greatest Generation veterans of World War II who once numbered 15 million and changed the face of this nation are slipping away fast now. Likewise, the veterans of Korea, the forgotten war, are fading away. The ranks of more than 3 million who served in the Vietnam War are thinning as well.
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RUTH M. GADEBUSCH: Re-evaluate on Veterans Day this year
Following October's peace demonstrations, November brings us Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, celebrating the conclusion of the "war to end all wars."
Once again we are bogged down in another war, with many questioning if we should be in Afghanistan at all -- just what our purpose is. Is it worth the price we are paying?
Most have little doubt about our presence in Iraq: It should never have been.
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Perilous peaks an aircraft graveyard
Almost three years after a glacier 70 miles east of Fresno surrendered the first of two mummified airmen, their 66-year-old crash remains one of many enduring aviation mysteries in the sprawling Sierra Nevada.
Hundreds of military and private aircraft have fallen here, victims of some of the world’s most dangerous winds, sudden storms, no-way-out canyons or even their own mistakes.
Sometimes planes simply disappear. Adventurer-millionaire Steve Fossett, for example, may have crashed in the Sierra last year, but no trace of him or his plane has been found.
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Ohio town to toast forgotten Vietnam veterans
The floor of VFW Post 291 has been scuffed by the shoes and boots of veterans who fought in wars going back nearly a century, to World War I.
The setting is a comfort for Willis Cochran, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War.
But his jaw tightens and face darkens as he remembers what happened when he returned to his hometown of Bainbridge, Ga., 43 years ago.
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Fresno vigil honors murder victims
In the summer of 2000, Arthur Valenzuela became Fresno's 11th homicide victim of that year.
More than nine years later his mother, Lupe Gastelum, still is waiting for justice.
"It gets me," she said. "It will always get me."
The original Mother's Day was started by mothers to bring warfare to an end, not as a day of extravagant shopping.
Julia Ward Howe, the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," wrote the original Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870 calling upon the women of the world to unite for peace. She had just witnessed the carnage of the American Civil War and the start of the Franco-Prussian War.
This Mother's Day, celebrate the spirit of the holiday by giving your mother an e-card with a donation to No More Victims in her name. No More Victims, a nonprofit organization, brings war-injured Iraqi children to the United States for medical treatment. Help bring Salee, a 10-year-old Iraqi girl who lost both of her legs in the war, to receive surgical treatment and prosthetics.
Visit www.mothersdayforpeace.com and enjoy a powerful message for peace. Fine women such as Vanessa Williams, Felicity Huffman, Christine Lahti, Alfre Woodward and Fatma Saleh have joined in reading of the proclamation and in urging you to make a contribution in your mother's name to No More Victims.
Let's celebrate our mothers and help a child!
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