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Telegram photos / Alan Campbell
Among local former service members to be honored Wednesday on Veterans Day are, top, from left, Marvin Sherrord, World War II; Bennett Cockrell, Korean War; Joe Pisarik, Vietnam War; Danny Pollard, Persian Gulf War; and Brandon Royals, Global War on Terror. In photos from their times in service, above, are Cockrell, Pirarik and Pollard.

Some gave all, all gave some.

Millions of men and women who have served in the United States’ armed forces have come to understand the reality of that statement in the nation’s 233-year history.


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