The friendly ghost of a Veterans Day past

Published November 11, 2021 12:00am ET



In honor of our military veterans, please allow this walk down memory lane.

My first job out of college was as a Reagan appointee to the Veterans Administration, where one of my tasks entailed speechwriting. Going through files last weekend, I found the speech I wrote for all the local heads of VA facilities across the country to give on Veterans Day, 1986. Here are some excerpts:

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