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Letter From Jamaica

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” (Unless something awful happened to your traveling companion and you ended up on “Dateline,” but fortunately that was not the case here.). Personally, I don’t know anyone who has come back from an island vacation, much less a Caribbean one, and said, “It sucked.”

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Veterans Day: A Granddaughter Remembers

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During this time, my grandfather flew transport aircraft. Sure enough, on the afore-announced night – which was moonlit – Pakistan sent in its jets, and as my grandfather was on the tarmac (a transport squadron was landing), he narrowly missed being hit by one. Image: taruntej via Flickr , CC 2.0

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