Elaine Young, who works at a veterans center, and Dave Cathcart, a veteran, visiting the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. Drew Angerer/The New York TimesVeterans Day Reminds Us We Owe More Than Just Parades To The 22 Million Who Served -- New York Daily News editorial
There are nearly 22 million living American military veterans, and we owe each of them big time.
On this day, Veterans Day 2010, we honor them all - from 109-year-old Frank Buckle of West Virginia, the last of the World War I doughboys, to World War II's greatest generation, to the combatants of Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf and other far-off places, all the way to the warriors of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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