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Ron White calls his remarkable capabilities "Operation Enduring Memory," a one-man tribute to those who lost their lives in Afghanistan. White, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist who served in Afghanistan in 2007, has memorized the name of every service member, and many U.S. civilians, killed during the Afghanistan war. A memory expert, it took him about 10 months to learn rank, first and last name of almost 2,200 people. Then, on Feb. 28 in Fort Worth, he used a white pen to write the names on a 50 foot long, 7 foot tall black wall, creating a finished product that...

President Barack Obama said U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan will adopt a “support role” starting in the spring of 2013, to allow Afghan police and soldiers to take full responsibility of the country’s security, a nation where 2,053 American soldiers have died since the war started on Oct. 7, 2001. Seventy-two percent of those casualties occurred during Obama's first term. “And today we agreed, as Afghan forces take the lead and as President Karzai announces the final phase of the transition, coalition forces will move to a support role this spring,” Obama said Friday at the White House, alongside...