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One Veteran's Perspective on President Obama's Speech

Mike Ferner, a corpsman in a Navy hospital during the Vietnam War, says that witnessing the human cost of combat changed him forever and prompted him to become an anti-war activist.

He shares his take on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in a provocative blog in which he gives the speech he says he wishes President Barack Obama had given this week:

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