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Marilyn Strickland: “No active duty service member in harm's way should ever have to question the Nation's commitment to veterans. This is…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 2005
No active duty service member in harm's way should ever have to question the Nation's commitment to veterans. This is the wrong message at the wrong time to the wrong constituency. And I would just repeat again, we have lost well over 1,440 lives in Iraq.
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Marilyn Strickland
Democratic · Washington

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Addressing veterans' issues and the message sent to active duty service members.

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