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Afghanistan veterans’ sacrifices were not made in vain - Atlantic Council

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The seeds of change that US veterans helped to plant over the past twenty years in Afghanistan will continue to flourish.

Veterans Day is about remembering. I remember how, on a sunny morning in a school gymnasium in Pinehurst, North Carolina, I cried with the families of three US veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan in the name of freedom and security. The families shared memories of their lost loved ones in order to keep their presence alive. The families told me about the veterans’ characters, qualities, and aspirations. One family told me that their son never met his newborn daughter, for whom he was so excitedly waiting. I cried with them, for them, and for the many thousands of Afghans wh

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