Anniversaries ...

I dunno, 6 weeks seems shorter than this. Rez Dog:

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Most of America's wars didn't last long enough to begin a fifth year of active combat. By the fourth anniversary of 7 December 1941, Japan and Germany had both surrendered. Four years after the attack on Fort [Sumter], our own civil war was over. By my reckoning, only the American Revolution and Vietnam saw active combat into a fifth year.

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4 years, ladies and germs, and what do we have to show for it? 3,200 Americans dead, countless Iraqis, and over a half-trillion dollars gone from the economy.