They included those who fought in World War II, along those who served during more recent military campaigns such as Malaya, Korea, the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan.
And, having unexpectedly encountered the woman in her getup, I found myself wondering what, six and seven decades ago, they would have made of it: what the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II, who were sent across the ocean to defeat a brutal enemy, would have thought about this scene.
Veterans, including those who protected Arctic convoys in World War II and those who served in later Cold War, have called for greater recognition.
Philip Milton and his brother, Alan, who run SageCrest II out of Greenwich, Conn.
"The amount of rage that these young people are carrying around is increasing very greatly, " says Sally Eller, who runs Phoenix II.
He came from a religious family (the family tree includes a Roman Catholic priest who helped Charles II escape after the battle of Worcester in 1651).
Asian Americans who remembered the internment camps of World War II, laborers who worked for white plantation owners on the mainland, minority war veterans who fought side by side with white G.
When I think about America, I think about my family, and I think about my grandfather who fought in World War II, and my grandmother, who, even with a baby, was working on a bomber assembly line.
Unlike John Paul II, who decided to stay in the job, Benedict is offering a different model.
On Sunday night, the museum presented its highest honor to World War II veterans who helped end the Holocaust.
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World War II veterans who served on Arctic convoys should be given a dedicated campaign medal, Scottish government minister Keith Brown said.
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His comments contrasted with those of Jordan's King Abdullah II, who said Friday that al-Assad is not likely to fall for months.
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Pope Benedict's predecessor Pope John Paul II, who died on 2 April, was the first pope to visit a synagogue and the Nazi concentration camps.
One churchgoer said she wanted somebody like the late Pope John Paul II, who was welcomed by millions when he visited the Philippines in 1995.
The family of a 90-year-old World War II veteran who died after being violently robbed in his home have appealed for help to catch his killer.
Mr Matsui also called for more support for ageing survivors of the WW II attack who are battling health issues caused by radiation from the bomb.
In the film, Depp plays John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, a well-known scoundrel in the court of Charles II (who is played by John Malkovich).
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Francis arrived a half-hour early to bless a plaque renaming a corner of the piazza outside the church after Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005.
Under Bulgaria's former king, Simeon II, who was prime minister between 2001 and 2005, the country pressed ahead with market reforms designed to meet EU economic targets.
This was seen as an implied criticism of the style of John Paul II, who said pointedly that some senior figures in the Church were giving too many interviews.
Medals awarded to a World War II pilot who risked his life to drop the French Tricolour over the Arc de Triomphe in occupied Paris in 1942 are being auctioned.
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"I have been praying for a new pope to be just like Pope John Paul II, who was close to the people and was very humble, " said Charlene Bautista, an insurance broker.
John Paul II, who preceded Benedict, was the first pontiff to use the Internet, and the 20th century saw a string of other milestones for popes using technology to reach the masses.
Fourteen years earlier, a much different Fidel Castro greeted a much different pontiff when thousands were introduced to Pope John Paul II, who made the historic first papal trip to Cuba in 1998.
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And he announced he would award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, posthumously to Jan Karski, an officer in the Polish underground during World War II, who provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust.
In the aftermath of the attacks Giuliani rose to become a transcendent figure of compassion and strength whose courage was acknowledged by Queen Elizabeth II, who gave him an honorary knighthood, and Time magazine, which made him its "Person of the Year" in 2001.
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