What we owe veterans

The morning sun glinted off granite headstones marked with small American flags across the Island’s cemeteries, where veterans of every major war since the nation’s founding have been buried. This Veterans Day, a federal holiday that was honored Wednesday, Nov. 11, landed on a particularly meaningful year, as the nation marked its 250th anniversary since signing the Declaration of Independence and the start of the Revolutionary War, as well as the 25th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the subsequent conflicts that became the Global War on Terror.

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