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Jack Dragoni

Veterans News and Views

Jack Dragoni attended Boston College and served in the U.S. Army in Berlin and Vietnam. He resides in Chaffee, Missouri.

May we honor all veterans

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Every Veterans Day for the past 14 years, I have tried to honor and remember veterans by writing an original column for Veterans Day. To accomplish this I have read or listened to countless speeches, researched facts and figures about those who have served, and drawn on my own relationships with friends, comrades and family who were in military service. Most people, including myself, have not found the words to adequately personify what ordinary Americans sacrificed serving their nation in war or peace and how that service should be honored.

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