With members of the nation's armed forces engaged in combat in two countries and in harm's way in several others, Veterans Day 2008 took on a greater immediacy and poignancy for all who considered it last week. Celebrations of the holiday, which traces its roots back to the original Armistice Day of World War I, were held all across the country.

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