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Runners ran up to the man, shouting, "Thank you for your service"When Mercury News reporter Julia Prodis Sulek woke up Sunday morning, she wasn't sure why she heard all the clapping and cheering outside her San Jose home. Then she peeked outside. She saw dozens of runners zipping by, up on the sidewalk, as part of the 408k Race to the Row, which benefits the Pat Tillman Foundation. All the commotion outside was for 95-year-old World War II veteran Joe Bell, who came outside in full military dress and stood on the sidewalk to root on the runners. But it...

With the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a major terrorist has fallen. It will not herald the end of violence in Iraq but it will deal a blow to those who continue to besiege that nation. Violence was Zarqawi’s trade but he and his cohorts failed to prevent any of the recent elections from taking place and most recently the three remaining security ministry cabinet positions – Minister of Defense, Minister of the Interior, and State Minister of National Security – have been filled. But while America and its partners are on the right side of the war, public support...