VETERANS DAY GALLERY: Images of US troops at war
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?FILE - U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division fire mortars in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. From left to right are CPL Jeremy Foley of Bloomington, Ill. and SPC William Makenzie of Pendleton, Ore. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
FILE - U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division fire mortars in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. From left to right are CPL Jeremy Foley of Bloomington, Ill. and SPC William Makenzie of Pendleton, Ore. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
FILE - U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945 during World War II. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal, File)
FILE - Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, clutches onto his Rosary beads as he is rescued onto a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment after he got shot in the stomach outside Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Saturday, June 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
FILE - A group of American assault troops who stormed Normandy, France take time out for food on June 8, 1944. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Wounded U.S. Marine Sgt. Shane Hanley, center, a squad leader from Easy Company, 2-2 Marines, receives treatment by U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Michael G. Patangan while airborne in an army Task Force Pegasus medevac helicopter, shortly after Hanley was wounded in the Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan on Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
There are very few bonds in life stronger than among those who have served in the Armed Forces ? soldiers, sailors and others who volunteered out of a sense of duty or who responded when called upon.
Cemeteries across the country pay tribute to those who paid the ultimate price.
The last U.S. veteran of World War I is gone and the ranks of World War II and Korean War vets are dwindling. Baby boomers who served in Vietnam are retiring. And with the pullout of troops from Afghanistan, the U.S. commitment there and in Iraq is coming to an end.
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On this Veterans Day, a gallery of photos of U.S. troops at war.
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