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Keyword: Afghanistan
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When you decide what to write in a column, there are many subjects that you could cover. There’s only one problem.
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11/21/13
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It is Oct. 31, 1951, a bitterly cold Halloween. My mother and I are rushing home from the neighborhood bakery in the late afternoon.
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10/31/13
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The American flag exists at the periphery of most our lives. It takes on significance mainly at events kicked off by the playing of the national anthem, at parades and during the seventh-inning stretch at Yankees games.
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6/13/13
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In the past 60 days, two of the world’s greatest western powers were subjected to cruel and appalling attacks at the hands of vile Islamic terrorists.
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6/6/13
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I plugged a simple search term into Google last week: “Were Afghanistan and Iraq worth it?” Tens of thousands of entries popped up.
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5/31/13
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“The Yellow Birds,” by Kevin Powers, should be required reading. The debut novel tells the story of two young American soldiers fighting their way through Al Tafar province in Iraq in 2004.
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5/23/13
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In a day and age when we are furloughing U.S. workers, cutting back programs, fighting over how to reduce the deficit and raising taxes, it’s hard to believe that taxpayers are footing a $2 billion-a-week bill — over $100 billion a year — to maintain our troops in Afghanistan.
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4/4/13
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“The crises in Iran and Afghanistan have dramatized a very important lesson: Our excessive dependence on foreign oil is a clear and present danger to our nation’s security."
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3/7/13
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On the evening of Feb. 1, a family waited patiently on the platform of the Lynbrook Long Island Rail Road station for the arrival of a train that would bring their son home from the war in Afghanistan. Army 1st Lt. Steven R. Liguori II, 25, a Lynbrook firefighter, was finally coming home after a year of deployment, followed by a short stay at the Fort Dix Army Hospital in New Jersey for treatment of an injury he suffered when insurgents attacked his base on Dec. 2, just before he was to return to the U.S.
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By Steve Grogan
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2/14/13
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I watched the sun set this week down at a storm-ravaged beach, and I realized that while the sun rises and the sun sets, pretty much everything else changes.
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11/23/12
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