Let's Thank Our Vets......all of them (builder, culture, dog)

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Pearl Harbor Homecoming - Family members wait on the pier as the guided missile cruiser USS Chosin returns to
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Jan. 9, 2006, after a six-month deployment in the Persian Gulf as part of the Tarawa
Expeditionary Strike Group to support the global war on terrorism. 01/12/2006 U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer
Joe Kane.
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Army Pfc. Charles “C.J.” Stewart, a wounded 101st Airborne Division soldier being treated at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center in Washington, gets regular visits and support from members of the 101st Airborne Division Association
and the 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment Association. Among his most frequent visitors are retired Army Col. Bob
Seitz, left, and former Army Major Dick Winters. Major Winters passed away last week. Courtesy photo, Department
of Defense.
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Major Richard "Dick" D. Winters (January 21, 1918 - January 2, 2011)[1] was a United States Army officer and
decorated war veteran. He commanded Company "E", 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st
Airborne Division, during World War II.
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South Dakota's Patriot Guard Riders ride through downtown Rapid City, S.D., with American flags and Prisoner of
War/Missing in Action flags Nov. 11, 2009, during the 2009 Veteran's Day Parade near Ellsworth Air Force Base. U.S.
military members and veterans and local community members are participating in the parade. (U.S. Air Force photo
by Airman 1st Class Anthony Sanchelli/Released)
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace (right), U.S. Marine Corps, talks with two World War II Marine
veterans, who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima, during the 4th Marine Division reunion in Louisville, Ky., on Sept. 5,
2007. Pace was the keynote speaker at the national reunion. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen, U.S. Air Force.
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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates delivers opening remarks at the Pentagon's March 18th, 2010, observance of
Women's History Month. In the audience are members of the World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots, members
of the Women's Army Corps, recipients of the Science, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Role Model Award, and
distinguished women serving throughout DoD in both civilian and military capacities. Courtesy DoD, photo by
R. D. Ward.

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Civil War Artillery Reenactors, Veterans Day Ceremony at the New Mexico Veterans Memorial, Albuquerque.
November 11th, 2009. Photo by Rich Sanchez. IMG_9148.jpg

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LOL , I didn't know that the Civil War reached all the way to New Mexico .

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The New Mexico Territory, which included the areas which later became New Mexico and Arizona as well as the southern part of Nevada, played a role in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. Both Confederate and Union governments claimed ownership and territorial rights over it. In 1861 the Confederacy claimed the southern tract as its own Arizona Territory and waged the ambitious New Mexico Campaign in an attempt to control the American Southwest and open up access to Union California. Confederate power in the New Mexico Territory was effectively broken after the Battle of Glorieta Pass in 1862. However, the territorial government continued to operate out of Texas, and Confederate troops marched under the Arizona flag until the end of the war. Over 8,000 troops from New Mexico Territory served the Union.

More info: Civil War Timeline in New Mexico







Five flags have flown over Albuquerque Old Town. From left to right. The flag of Spain from 1598 to 1821, The Flag of
Mexico from 1821 to 1846), the United States Flag from 1846 on, the New Mexico flag since 1912 and the
Confederate States in 1862. Albuquerque, NM. Old Town, March 15, 2009. Photo by Rich Sanchez:

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Poor NM couldn't catch a break now where, could they? Everyone wanted a piece of the action and all they wanted to do was sit back and watch the action. LOL!

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A U.S. Army bugler plays "Taps" at the conclusion of the first annual remembrance ceremony dedicated to fallen
military medical personnel March 11, 2009, at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. DoD photo by Mass
Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley.
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