Even on a typical day, this is not a typical courtroom. The Buffalo Veterans Treatment Court is the first of its kind in the nation – a court of law only for US military veterans who have run afoul of the law, and only for those willing to exchangeMY earliest memories of Veterans Day are filled with images of my dad telling me that “on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the year before I was born, World War I ended.” When my father spoke those words — as he did everyA family member holds up a photo and flowers near the name of Frederico "Nico" Silva, killed in 1965, on Veterans Day at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Bill O'Leary / The Washington Post. Related Content. Veterans listen to speeches onThis Veterans Day is a good time to initiate a conversation about a memorial to the veterans who have fought our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our longest wars. Forgetting wars is bad history. Forgetting sacrifice isOur recent wars are more personal. Squads fighting against squads. The very specific violence of an IED. They may have read the poem below, stark and dispiriting, and went anyway. Today we should remember and honor
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