It creates thousands of miles of new scenic, historic, and recreational trails, cares for our historic battlefields, strengthens our National Park System.

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"Their cowardly actions, carried out under the cover of darkness, are in stark contrast to the bravery demonstrated on the battlefields by our war heroes, " he said.

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We memorialize those who gave their lives on the battlefields of our times -- from Normandy to Manila, Inchon to Khe Sanh, Baghdad to Helmand, and in jungles, deserts, and city streets around the world.

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Interestingly, this weapon is not being wielded by our men and women in uniform on the far-flung battlefields of this war.

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If several recent, seriously flawed Pentagon decisions are not challenged, however, our armed forces could soon lose the critical mobility that affords them such an advantage on today's battlefields and the new - and possibly quite different - global ones of tomorrow.

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