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[Open letter signed by twenty-one Medal of Honor recipients]Dear fellow Veterans:We have listened to Senator Kerry falsely attack President Bush for months over funding for veterans, and it's time to set the record straight.  The truth is President Bush has led the way on improving veterans’ benefits, supporting our troops and restoring honor and dignity to the White House.Since 2001, President Bush has increased veterans funding by over $20 billion, and funding for veterans' health care has increased by 40 percent since he took office.  Funding for veterans has gone up twice as fast under President Bush as it...

Their names will ring through history: MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower, Bradley, Nimitz, Halsey and many others. On the 60th anniversary of the great Allied invasion of Hitler’s Fortress Europe, the names of many of the U.S. lions of World War II are firmly and forever enshrined in our national pantheon of heroes. These great men were the progenitors of the Greatest Generation, the young men and women who sacrificed to win the war. Any thoughts of D-Day, of course, would be bare of essentials if not laced through and through with the contributions of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), the man...