Veterans Day came a day after the president spoke at a memorial service at the Army base at Fort Hood,Texas.
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By sunrise the next day, Lee's seventy thousand men faced a Union army of ninety thousand men.
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Day by day,the Union army of General William Sherman cut and burned its way across Georgia.
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Mr. NASH: Well General Schoomaker, the chief of staff of theArmy, estimated the other day, before a panel examining this question, that he could recruit an additional 6, 000 or so, maybe 7, 000 a year.
Friday is the last day they can submit proposals to the U.S. Army for the Common Infrared Countermeasures program, a system that may one day equip thousands of military helicopters with lasers that can jam the guidance of hostile heat-seeking missiles.
And there they all, the creatures of theday, the former Irish army men who served in Lebanon and the Congo, the pensioneers, and fellows with but occasional jobs.