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21 Years Since the Gulf War

by tdaxp ~ January 17th, 2012

I remember waking up early one morning and going down to the living room and turning on the news and they were talking about “Operation Desert Storm.” The news is wrong, I thought, it’s called Operation Desert Shield.

That was 21 years ago today.

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