A few years ago, I saw this bumper sticker:

If you can read this, thank a teacher;

For not reading it in German, Japanese or Chinese, thank a veteran.

We owe our veterans a debt impossible to repay. And not just because most of us don’t have the penmanship to write Chinese legibly.

I was born in 1954, so I’m not old enough to remember World War II or the Korean War, but I do remember the Vietnam War and, of course, the latest war to end all wars, the one in Iraq and Afghanistan.

War movies are among my favorite film genres, but once I...

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