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World War II March 2006	Battle of the Bulge: Robert Walter's Baptism of Fire Swept up in the largest American campaign of the war in Europe, Robert Walter remembers the Battle of the Bulge as a series of small dramas that played themselves out in the wooded hills near Elsenborn Ridge.
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Vietnam August 2006 Colonel Dick Camp	3rd Battalion, 26th Marines Fight With the NVA 324B Division in September 1967 During the Vietnam War As the battalion got the word that it would be relieved, an enemy voice was heard over the battalion radio: "Goodbye, 3/26!"
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Civil War Times December 2005 Eric Ethier	The Battle of Wilson's Creek The Battle of Wilson's Creek helped to keep a critical border state out of the Confederacy.
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