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American Battle Veterans Revolution to Present
(Homeward Bound)
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OTHERS, Army
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Desert Storm
Korean War
Pre World War-I
Vietnam War
World War-I
World War-II
Revoution, Sp-Am War, Mexican War, Civil War
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World War II, Korean War, Vietnam and Iraq War vets marched past the Marietta town square on the Fourth of July, but they left no lasting footprints on the pavement when they were gone. Only a few yards away, Rebels had pursued Yankees north toward Chattanooga in the Great Locomotive Chase one hundred and forty years before. Only The General remains, their footprints also gone long ago, but they had been there once, their spirits stayed on. This day a stranger stepped from the crowd, grabbed a wrinkled hand, and whispered, ?Thank you!? Their wars were over but they carried tradition with them. They followed a familiar route, a timeless road that stretches from Lexington through New Orleans to Manassas, from Berlin and Manila to Seoul, on to Saigon, Kabul, Baghdad...and back to this place, home.
They answered the bugle?s call, left hearth and home behind, and when their duty was done they came home. This book is a tribute to their sacrifices, dreams, expectations, disappointments, and
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