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NEWS ABOUT: Veterans Day

Veterans Day stories: 11 news summaries
VETERANS DAY

 Best War Movies Ever 

Watch clips from Patton to Glory to Full Metal Jacket

Nov 11, 09 7:29 PM CST
(Newser) - In honor of Veterans Day, the Huffington Post runs down the best war movies of all time:
  • Apocalypse Now: Vietnam War
  • From Here to Eternity: Pearl Harbor
  • Patton: World War II
  • Braveheart: Scotland’s battle for independence
  • Lawrence of Arabia: World War I
  • Band of Brothers: World War
... More »

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Somalia • veterans • World War II • Vietnam War • Civil War • Korean War • Veterans Day • Pearl Harbor • World War I • movies • films • Jay-ZTV

 Nation Marks Veterans Day 

Obama lays a wreath at Arlington

Nov 11, 09 12:18 PM CST
(Newser) - The nation honored its war veterans today at services around the country. President Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington, telling vets and their families that "there is no tribute, no commemoration, no praise that can truly match the magnitude of your service and... More »

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veterans • US military • Arlington National Cemetery • Veterans Day • President Obama

 Lack of Health 
 Insurance Kills 
  2K Veterans 
 a Year 

2,266 died last year, a study finds

Nov 11, 09 8:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Some 2,266 US veterans under 65 died last year because they didn't have health insurance, a team from Harvard Medical School estimates. Although most vets get medical care through the VA, there are about a million and a half, under 65, who were not wounded and are "too... More »

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health care • veterans • health insurance • uninsured • Veterans Day • Veterans Administration

Obama to Honor Veterans During Alaska Visit

First visit to chilly 49th state a refueling stop en route to Asia

Nov 6, 09 3:43 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama will visit Alaska next week for the first time, stopping at Elmendorf Air Force Base to observe Veterans Day with base personnel while Air Force One refuels. Like most recent presidents, Obama will visit Alaska en route to Asia, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The president would like... More »

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Alaska • President • Veterans Day • Obama administration • Air Force One • President Obama • Elmendorf AFB

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

 Flags at Half-Staff Through 
 Veterans Day: Obama 

President calls the move a 'modest tribute' to Fort Hood victims

Nov 6, 09 11:55 AM CST
(Newser) - President Obama today ordered that American flags at all federal properties be flown at half-staff until Veterans Day—next Wednesday—to honor the people killed at Fort Hood yesterday. The gesture is “a modest tribute to those who lost their lives even as others were preparing to risk their... More »

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Veterans Day • mass shootings • Obama administration • President Obama • American flag • Fort Hood • Nidal Malik Hasan

Bush, Obama
Salute Veterans

Dem joins Iraq vet at Chicago memorial; prez speaks in NYC aboard WWII carrier

Nov 11, 08 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama joined a disabled veteran of the Iraq war in laying a wreath at a memorial in Chicago today, the Tribune reports, with a few dozen spectators witnessing the president-elect’s long Veterans Day appearance. President Bush, meanwhile, was in New York, WCBS-TV reports, praising military members as part... More »

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Barack Obama • president • memorial • speech • Veterans Day • George W. Bush • President Obama • USS Intrepid

OPINION

 90 Years On, It's 
 Still the War to 
 End All Wars 

Across Europe, World War I remains the defining conflict of modern times

Nov 11, 08 10:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Ninety years ago today the Allies and Germany signed the armistice that ended World War I, a conflict of unprecedented brutality and expense. But where today Americans celebrate Veterans Day, a commemoration of wars' survivors, in Europe the mood is "altogether more somber," historian Alexander Watson writes in... More »

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veterans • France • Britain • Veterans Day • World War I • Great War • Armistice Day

 VJ Day Nurse to Lead Parade 

 was the iconic image of war's end

Nov 10, 08 2:14 AM CST
(Newser) - The woman who claims to be the lady in white in the iconic Life photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day is being feted this week as grand marshall of tomorrow's Veterans Day Parade in Manhattan, AP reports.  Former nurse Edith Shain, now... More »

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South Pacific • Veterans Day • Edith Shain • Life Magazine • VJ Day • Alfred Eisenstaedt • Bobbi Baker Burrows • Doctors Hospital

Leno Gets First McCain Interview on Veterans Day

GOP candidate has kept off of TV since Election Day loss

Nov 7, 08 5:39 PM CST
(Newser) - John McCain will help Jay Leno celebrate Veterans Day by appearing on NBC’s “Tonight Show,” Monsters & Critics reports today. The Tuesday appearance will mark the Republican’s first TV interview since his loss to Barack Obama in the Nov. 4 election. More »

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John McCain • NBC • Jay Leno • Tonight Show • Veterans Day • Election 2008

Striking Writers Enlist Kids

Writers use Veterans Day to teach kids and garner attention

Nov 12, 07 6:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Striking scribes took advantage of Veterans Day to bring their kids to picket lines in Los Angeles today, the AP reports. The move garnered attention and gave parents a chance to tutor youngsters in payments and residuals. "It's a little rude for the producers to take so much and... More »

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Hollywood • Disney • writer • film studio • Writers Guild of America • Hollywood writers' strike • Veterans Day

 Bush Hails 'Noble' Iraq War

President marks Veterans Day in Texas

Nov 12, 07 3:25 AM CST
(Newser) - President Bush marked the fifth Veterans Day since the beginning of the war in Iraq at an emotional ceremony at an American Legion Post in Texas where four fallen servicemen were honored. Bush was expected to use the opportunity to scold Congress for not sending him a veterans spending bill,... More »

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Dick Cheney • David Petraeus • Arlington National Cemetery • Veterans Day • American Legion Post 121 • Iraq war • Iraq war spending

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