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Veterans
by Charles R. Nichols

The word ‘Veteran’ means to me anyone who ever served our country in the Armed Forces in any capacity. It’s not defined by what you did, where you did it, and when you did it – you still gave some time out of your life for a larger cause.

It seemed to me I should write this article by writing about our recent major wars in some kind of order.

Keeping in mind that this article relates to Philmont, the appropriate starting would seem to be the Civil War. Earlier wars have such a dearth of local sources of information as to make it almost impossible to account for our Village’s history in them...
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