July 3, 2006: Arizona Wing's Lt. Col. Bohn Wanamaker Offers 4th of July Thoughts in USA Today

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On this date in 2006, Lt. Col. Bohn E. Wanamaker of the Arizona Wing of the Civil Air Patrol had an essay featured on USA Today's opinion blog on the meaning of the 4th of July.

An excerpt from USA Today:

On this Independence Day, as we raise Old Glory, be still, listen and she will tell of the price paid for the freedom we have in America — paid by those young men who died so that America would be free. They died at Pork Chop Hill, Verdun, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Pearl Harbor, Okinawa and Corregidor. And when they died, the American flag wrapped them in love and draped honor over their caskets, on land and on the seas.

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