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On the recordNovember 11, 2012
This is the first Veterans Day in a decade in which there are no American troops fighting and dying in Iraq.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Barack Obama reflects on the significance of Veterans Day and the absence of American troops in Iraq.

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