Men who are comfortable in boots, the dust or the mud, around horses and cattle and a bit disdainful of sidewalks.

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And whether future generations here will look up from their fields sometimes at sunset, at the mud forts and checkpoints built in these final years, and think for a minute or two of the men who fought and died so far from home.

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