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Richard Edward Cavazos was born in January 1929, in Kingsville, Texas, one of five children to Lauro Cavazos and Thomasa…
Brian Kenneth Cagle was born in May 1970 in Atlanta, Ga. With both his uncle and father having previously served, Cagle decided…
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At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month more than one hundred years ago, the guns…
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