One of the journalistic heroes of the pre-war period was Washington Post national security reporter Walter Pincus, who reported the lack of evidence for the administration's hype.

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Our Nation continues to recover the remains of fallen heroes we lost in the Vietnam War, the Korean War, World War II, and other conflicts.

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The day began with Mr Kaczynski and his Prime Minister Donald Tusk joining war veterans beside a monument to the heroes of Westerplatte at 0445 (0245 GMT).

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The 27, 000 houses on the Becontree estate were described as homes for heroes, often allocated to the families of World War I servicemen.

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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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Peter Newkirk, a cockney prisoner of war, on the CBS sitcom "Hogan's Heroes, " his son said.

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Then, a government decision to inter him in Les Invalides in Paris, where French war heroes have been buried since the 17th century, was reversed because of public outrage.

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The men were embarrassed by the public fawning over them as heroes, but they also raised a lot of money at a crucial time in the war.

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Suribachi, and who became the anonymous subjects of the most famous photograph of the war, three survived the battle to be called home and paraded around the country as salesmen-heroes in a national War Bond tour.

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