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Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is talking tough about arming the Syrian rebels. One word comes to mind: Vietnam. Remember how tough our country looked then. Remember the pictures in Life magazine of children, badly burned, escaping down a road.
See and feel that long, black wall in Washington, D.C. Feel the 55,000 names and let your hand float over their chiseled edges.
Perhaps leading is remembering.
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