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In Visit To D.C., WWII Vets Will Also Revisit Memories

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« on: May 10, 2009, 11:38:11 am »










A common purpose



A flag-bearing honor guard greeted the veterans at a Conroe parking lot when they met at 4 a.m.

A steak dinner awaited them on the flight home. At every stop, bystanders stood and applauded.

“It means so much to them,” said 15-year-old Kathryn Yarbarough, who helped raise money.

World War II was in many ways the defining experience of 20th-century America, sandwiched between the Great Depression and the postwar economic boom.

It was a time of common purpose, from the soldiers storming Europe to the women who kept factories running back home.
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