On a day when many banners are declaring, “Support Our Troops,” some military veterans are saying that phrase has lost its meaning.

“We?ve become pawns in the political chaos, and that phrase means what politicians want it to mean,” said Thom Unkle, chairman of the United Veterans of Anne Arundel County, during a Veterans Day ceremony Sunday at the Maryland Veterans Cemetery in Crownsville.

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