You make a speech, walk off the stage with your statue, bring it home, and you put it on the mantle.

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Inevitably, it has all put pressure on the politicians to show they are doing their best to bring the troops home.

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"When we launched the Optimum App on the iPad a year ago, we said we planned to bring it to every screen in the home capable of functioning as a television, and now the Kindle Fire has joined that expanding list, our first Android deployment, " said Bradley Feldman, Cablevision's vice president of video product management.

ENGADGET: Live streams come to Cablevision's Optimum App for the Kindle Fire