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Obama is there for military in way Bush never was

Joye Brown

Newsday columnist Joye Brown

Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006.

For years now, soldiers, their families and their hometown communities have had to manage the worst of two wars mostly out of sight of the American public.

They have waited for loved ones to return, prayed daily for their safety, breathed more easily as they hugged them coming off planes and returning to home soil.

They have courageously, unbearably, welcomed back their dead, and even...

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