After every major conflict – World War I World War II Korea Vietnam the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57 000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
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It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts which was the way we did before 9/11 and then looking at 9/11 and saying 'This is not a criminal act ' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan kill 3 000 Americans blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.
