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Mike Lee
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As we celebrate #VeteransDay this year, on the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, I am grateful for the moment to reflect on the veterans I have been blessed to interact with.
Yet these feelings of gratitude and honor we experience for those who have served our country should not be restrained to one day a year. Rather, we should use this day as a reminder to respect these brave men and women and their families through our words and actions every day.
To the roughly 150,000 veterans living in #Utah, thank you, and happy Veterans Day. Please do not hesitate to reach out to my office should you ever be in need of assistance.
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🇺🇸 #VeteransDay is EVERY day since our President ran for the office..
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My father in law was trained as a Signal Corpsman in World War II. He carried the secret FM crystals which allowed the generals to talk to each other. Because he was usually near the generals, his war career was pretty quiet.
On the other hand, he was always vague about what the protocol was if it looked as if he, and those crystals, were about to fall into enemy hands.

Best to just be grateful it didn't come to that.
My father had a double degree in Classics and Astronomy from Cornell. The year after he graduated, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. This was enough of a shock that American military planes were still pretty antiquated, not ready for long-range combat.
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Chad Williams
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The history of the 92d Division in #WWI is worth delving into. It's story is a critical part of the black military experience in the war and why this legacy matters.
1/ The 92d division was one of two all-black combat divisions to fight in the war (the other the was the 93rd division, made up mostly of black national guardsmen). It's insignia was the buffalo in honor of the famed “buffalo soldiers” of the Regular Army.
2/ It is important to emphasize that the army did not want black combat soldiers. From the beginning they were seen as a "problem." Black soldiers in the Regular Army were not sent to France. As for black draftees, the War Dept. hoped to use them exclusively as laborers.
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Sunday, November 11
Veterans Day 2018 in United States of America
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Joanne Hammond
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Hey Kamloops. We need your help. We’d like to honour Kamloops veterans on memorial street signs this year, to mark the century since the end of WWI.

Can I have a word about remembrance? Honour? Respect? And yes, money. 1/
Kamloops Heritage Commission planned to replace about 50 signs this year, adding poppies to streets named for fallen WWI soldiers.

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