The newly discovered poems include several from World War I, including one titled Never Again In Any Port, as well as notes from a journal the writer kept on a tour of the war graves of Belgium and France in 1924.

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By the way, I'd mentioned here that last week we had polls released that indicated Americans - 53 percent, according to a Wall Street Journal poll - still consider the war a mistake, and 54 percent are willing to support a candidate who promises to pull U.S. troops out in a year.

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Google is also shifting tactics in its war against Apple for smartphone and tablet dominance, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

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Apart from ostensibly disowning the Institute for Islamic and Arabic Studies after the Journal story ran, however, there is not much evidence that they have abandoned the war of ideas they and their clients have been waging elsewhere.

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The aforementioned Journal article specifically cited the struggles of Forrest Yeager, a 91-year old World War II veteran who, thanks to short-term CD rates paying less than 1% interest, has been forced to dig deeper into his principal in order to get by on a monthly basis.

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