It’s time we showed our veterans some real love

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Posted: 3:52 p.m. Saturday, May 24, 2014

By Leonard Pitts

"I want a love I can see. That's the only kind that means a thing to me. Don't want a love you have to tell me about. That kind of loving I can sure do without." — The Temptations, 1963

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