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Was I there as a patriotic supporter of veterans? \u00a0Actually, my son and I stumbled on this during our bike ride.<\/p>\n

Also, the Honor Flight around here has been expanded to vets of all wars; see here for the list of attendees<\/a>\u00a0and the wars they served in, and here for a local news article<\/a>. \u00a0And \u2014 to be honest, I\u2019m ordinarily somewhat cynical of the Honor Flight concept, but the Belgian\/France train attack-foiling was on my mind, and the very fact that we call on our soldiers to put their lives at risk, perhaps not at the same level as rushing, unarmed, at an attacker, but nonetheless in very real ways.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"