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Veterans Day Gallery: Images of US troops at war
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A U.S. medical helicopter arrives to evacuate a soldier from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, who was seriously wounded when he stepped on an improvised mine near Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division fire mortars in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. From left to right are CPL Jeremy Foley of Bloomington, Ill. and SPC William Makenzie of Pendleton, Ore. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
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In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a U.S. Coast Guard landing barge, tightly packed with helmeted soldiers, approaches the shore at Normandy, France, during initial Allied landing operations, on June 6, 1944.(AP Photo, File)
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American Paratroopers fly over the English Channel enroute to play a key role in the invasion of France by landing along a 100 mile front of the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/U.S. SIgnal Corps, File)
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Wounded U.S. Marine Sgt. Shane Hanley, center, a squad leader from Easy Company, 2-2 Marines, receives treatment by U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Michael G. Patangan while airborne in an army Task Force Pegasus medevac helicopter, shortly after Hanley was wounded in the Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan on Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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A German soldier lifts weights at his combat outpost in Char Darah, outisde Kunduz, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
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A U.S. Army soldier crosses an irrigated field during a patrol by the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division near COP Nolen, in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Tony Ferguson, of Bahama, NC, eats a field ration in the Saudi desert as an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter hovers nearby, Saturday, Nov. 10, 1990 in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/John Gaps III, File)
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Lance Cpl. Sean McMullen of Colorado Springs, Colo., Golf Company, talks to his girlfriend on a satellite phone under the moonlight from combat outpost ANP Hill Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, near the city of Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
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A soldier from the Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment walks past burning reeds razed to prevent insurgents from seeking cover in Quarghuli village near Youssifiyah, 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 26, 2007, two weeks after a May 12 ambush left four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi soldier dead and three missing. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Under sniper fire, a Vietnamese woman carries a child to safety as U.S. Marines storm the village of My Son, near Da Nang, as they search for Viet Cong insurgents in April 1965. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams, File)
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U.S. Marine Female Engagement Team members Lance Cpl. Mary Shloss, right, of Hammond, Ind., Sgt. Monica Perez,, center, of San Diego, Calif. and Cpl. Kelsey Rossetti, of Derry, N.H. wait for the signal to begin their patrol in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan on Aug. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
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A U.S. soldier of the 9th Infantry Division uses an M79 grenade launcher to guide helicopters into an operation on the northern edge of South Vietnam's Mekong Delta in mid-July 1968. (AP Photo/Henri Huet, File)
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U.S. Air Force bombs create a curtain of flying shrapnel and debris barely 200 feet beyond the perimeter of South Vietnamese ranger positions defending Khe Sanh during the siege of the U.S. Marine base, March 1968. (AP Photo/ARVN, Maj. Nguyen Ngoc Hanh, File)
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An American destroyer comes alongside a flagship to deliver a message as the convoy carries First Cavalry division from Japan to South Korea on July 21, 1950. (AP Photo/Charles P.Gorry, File)
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Posted 11/12/12
There are very few bonds in life stronger than among those who have served in the Armed Forces — soldiers, sailors and others who volunteered out of a sense of duty or who responded when called upon.
Cemeteries across the country pay tribute to those who paid the ultimate price.
The last U.S. veteran of World War I is gone and the ranks of World War II and Korean War vets are dwindling. Baby boomers who served in Vietnam are retiring. And with the pullout of troops from Afghanistan, the U.S. commitment there and in Iraq is coming to an end.
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These where some awesome pictures to remind us to say thanks. All military personal are awesome. Thank you all past, present, and future. Monday, November 12, 2012|Report this