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Showing Original Post only (View all)President Barack Obama hits it out of the park. [View all]
Watching Pres. Obama now at the Vietnam Memorial paying tribute to the Vietnam vets of which I am one.
Makes me proud to have voted for this extraordinary man.
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I never went to war and have always objected to them. I went there in the mid-80's
calimary
May 2012
#9
well said. Another thing that happens is the quiet that falls upon us as we walk the length of it
Beaverhausen
May 2012
#28
That hurts. It's a slap in the face to the Obama and Biden families who've made veterans and
calimary
May 2012
#10
Someone else raised the point that the demographics in that group tend to be older white men,
NYC Liberal
May 2012
#21
He was pretty blunt about how badly the returning vets were treated after the war. I recall
AlinPA
May 2012
#6
grover norquist quote-of-the damned - featured in one of babylonsister's threads
calimary
May 2012
#37