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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 27, 2011

  Disgracefully, Vietnam vets weren’t given a “welcome home” parade by the US government until 10 years after the US withdrew. At this point, Team Obama has been disturbingly silent about honoring our courageous returning troops with any kind of celebration or ticker-tape parade as the last of them return home from the Iraq War. [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 19, 2011

  The supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, is dead. He was believed to be 69 years old when he passed away over the weekend, but there are conflicting reports about his age. Reportedly, Kim died of a heart attack. Emotions are running high in North Korea, with grief [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 14, 2011

  Last week was the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In Honolulu, Hawaii, 24 World War II veterans — 23 of whom survived the Pearl Harbor attack — were engaged in a solemn, rose-laying cemetery ceremony at some of the graves of their fallen comrades at the National Memorial Cemetery of the [...]

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