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"The men I served with, guys who didn’t survive, I wanted to keep their memory alive." - Jim Hastings, Marine Corps, during Vietnam War
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ROSE LINCOLN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
"Every veteran has a different story to tell, and you can learn amazing things from them." - Viviana Cordoba, Army Reserve, during Iraq War
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The Boston Globe
"We thought [the French] hated us. They love us." - Frank Rines Jr., Merchant Marine, during World War II
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JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF
"Fifty years from now somebody could say “I remember Harry from way back” and they could check out what I did." - Harry Seaholm, Navy, during World War II and Korean War
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"The most important thing . . . was it began a formal closure to what really was still pretty raw." - Connie Nippert Walsh, Navy Nurse Corps, during Vietnam War, with clown Emmett Kelly



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