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Honor veterans and military families on this Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 18, 2013…

by | May 17, 2013

Armed Forces Day May 18, 2013…  Quoting from this website…

‘Strong and Resilient’: Celebrating Armed Forces Day 2013

 

The Department of Defense has made Armed Forces Day posters, like the one you see above on this post, available online for free download.
“It is fitting and proper that we devote one day each year to paying special tribute to those whose constancy and courage constitute one of the bulwarks guarding the freedom of this nation and the peace of the free world.”
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower on Armed Forces Day, 1953
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