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July 3, 2008
Volume 10

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Editor's Note:
When you think of Independence Day this year, don't think just about a long weekend for grilling, get-togethers and fireworks. Please spare a few moments to think about what really stands behind the Fourth of July.

Think about Washington's tattered, starving army enduring winter at Valley Forge. Think about Gettysburg, where the casualties topped 45,000, every one of them an American. Think about the sailors whose bodies have never been recovered from the wreck of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor.

Think especially about the soldiers and sailors, Marines and airmen, who will spend this weekend far from their loved ones. Some of them will be sleeping in foxholes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and all of them would rather be home with us. They're the people the Fourth is really about.


Scott Baltic, Homeland1 Managing Editor
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Members of the Missouri National Guard erect a temporary wall in an effort to save homes from rising floodwaters Friday, in Winfield, Mo.
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Homeland1 at the 2008 World Conference on Disaster Management, Part 2


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