Veterans Day – 2023 – Lawfire – Sites@Duke Express

I hope you are enjoying Veterans Day, and the freedom we have in our country! I’m proud – and grateful – to be among the 16.2 million living veterans in the United States, and I am thankful for those incredible people who served before, during and after my time in service. In his Proclamation, the President Biden said: This Veterans Day, we honor the generations of women and men who have served and sacrificed — not for a person, a place, or a President — but for an idea unlike any other: the idea of the United States of America. For nearly 250 years, our veterans have defended the values that make us strong so that our Nation could stand as a citadel of liberty, a beacon of freedom, and a wellspring of possibilities. (Just as a quick reminder, Veterans Day is intended to honor all veterans while Memorial Day is intended to commemorate those who have died in the service).  Sadly, however, it is hard to escape the grim news: the media reports that the “US is mounting a frantic effort to head off a wider Middle East war” while at the same time experts are also telling us
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