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20 years after the invasion of Iraq

Pod Save the World

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World War II and the Greatest Generation

The Brown University Cost of War project estimates that 1.8 million US veterans today have a disability as a result of post-9-11 war. I remember telling you like when the World War II memorial opened on the mall, right? There was this sense that Vietnam scarred a generation of people because the government lied and the cost was so horrific. And there was a hunger around Iraq for a like mannequin, black, white kind of good war again where we topple an evil dictator.

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