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By Capt Joseph R. John, on March 7, 2016 

An endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress, Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, Maj-USMCR (R-CA-52) in the below article is opposing the transfer of the most dangerous Al Q’ieda Terrorists incarcerated at the US Naval Detention Facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (GITMO) to foreign countries and to US prisons on United States soil.  There is a much more sinister reason why the occupant in the Oval Office has been transferring hundreds of Radical Islamic Terrorists from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, for the last 7 years; Obama has been ignoring the fact 30% of released terrorists from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility have resumed terrorist activities and/or have returned to the battlefield to kill US Military personnel.  Even though the Al Q’ieda and Taliban Terrorists that Obama has been releasing from GITMO are killing and maiming…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on February 29, 2016                        

America is fortunate to have men serving in US Navy SEAL Teams like Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward C. Byers Jr., USN, (SEAL) who will be awarded the Medal Of Honor in the White House today, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.  Senior Chief Byer’s will only be the second Medal of Honor recipient who continues to serve on active duty; he will remain on active duty with Maj William D. Swenson, USA who was awarded the Medal of Honor for combat in Afghanistan in September 2009.  Senior Chief Beyer’ profile is outlined in the below listed article.

 

There are currently 77 living recipients of the United States Military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.  Of the 77 living recipients, six earned their Medals of Honor in…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on February 25, 2016

 

In the below listed Op Ed by Admiral James A. Lyons, Jr. ’52, USN (Ret), former Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet, he highlights the latest inept directive degrading the strength of the US Armed Forces.  The “Climate Change” directive is the latest inept directive designed to hobble the US Armed Forces.  It is a policy directive among a whole range of the Obama administration’s same inept policies and directives that have been degrading the “Combat Effectiveness” of the US Armed Forces for the last 7 years.  

 

Obama continues to issue these directives, with absolutely no opposition from the Republican Leadership in Congress.  The US Congress has the authority and power to oppose Obama’s steady stream of inept directives designed to hobble the US Armed Forces by using the power of the purse to restrict…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on February 23, 2016

An endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress, Cong Chris Gibson, Col-USA (Ret) (R-NY-20) co-sponsored a House Bill with Cong Mike Turner (R-OH-10) that will halt the Obama administration’s plans to drawdown the end strength of the US Army and the US Marine Corps.  The bill will actually increase the strength of the US Army by 55,000 personnel.  

“The assumptions have significantly changed,” Cong Gibson told reporters on Wednesday, adding later: “Stay tuned, in the very near future we’re going to have some legislative action come forward, but we think it’s essential … that this drawdown needs to stop, and that the next president make assessments of what the proper level of land forces should be.”

The bill would revise the Army’s planned end-strength goal from 980,000 to 1,035,000, for a total that falls slightly below the Army'…

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The Combat Veterans For Congress PAC is endorsing the 105th Combat Veteran For Congress to run for office in 2016.  He is a fiscally conservative candidate who will work to reduce the national debt, to strengthen the US Armed Forces, will support the Free Enterprise System, will work to defeat ISIS, protect the Freedom of Religion guaranteed in the US Constitution, defend traditional Family Values, and will provide “true” representation for the average Americans in Washington, D.C.  He will continue to work toward unleashing the private sector to grow once again, create jobs, stimulate private sector business investment, and will work to stop the out of control spending by the Congress.  SgtMaj Juan M. Hidalgo, Jr., USMC (Ret) who resides in San Diego, CA, served in the US Marine Corps for 31 years and is running for Congress in the 51st Congressional District of California.  

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on February 18, 2016 

The below listed article was written by Judicial Watch, after Judicial Watch gained access to messages that were on Hillary Clinton’s server, that the US State Department released over the weekend.  Those messages were on then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server in the basement of her home (which had no security system to shield the thousands of Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, Top Secret (compartmented) messages from being hacked by foreign intelligence agencies.   

 

Hillary Clinton and Obama both knew there was an Iranian sponsored Hezbollah Radical Islamic Terrorist training and operating base 90 miles from the US to initiate terrorist attacks against the US and Latin America, before they remove Cuba from the US State Department’s list of nations that sponsor terrorism.  

 

Before Obama…

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Combat Veterans For Congress-----Embedded Integrity    
We encourage you to support Lcdr Paul Chabot, USNR, the 102nd Endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress in the last 7 ½ years who is running for election to Congress in the 31st Congressional District of California in 2016.  There will be a major fund raising event held on Capitol Hill, on February 23, 2016 to support the election of Lcdr Chabot.  The event is being supported by another elected Combat Veteran For Congress, Cong Duncan Hunter, Maj-USMCR (R-CA-52), the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC, a Director of the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC-Cong Barry Goldwater (Ret), another Director of the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC--Cong Rob Simmons, Col-USA/CIA (Ret), The Honorable Ambassador John Bolton, Cong Jason Chaffets, Cong Ken Calvert, Cong Steve Chabot, Cong Steve Knight, Cong Dave Reicher, Cong Mimi…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on February 9, 2016 

The below listed article explains how the occupant of the Oval Office has been presiding over a conspiracy for 7 years to eliminate hundreds of terrorists from the DHS Terrorist Watch List, endangering the National Security of the United States.  That action has been responsible in large measure for the loss of life of some American citizens on the below listed list, especially those in San Bernardino.  In 2009, Obama ordered his appointees at the Department of Homeland Security to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Radical Islamist Terrorist groups from the important federal database of suspected Radical Islamic Terrorists and from the DHS Watch List.

 

Foreign Radical Islamic Terrorists have effectively been given civil rights by the Obama administration, and for 7 years they have…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on February 2, 2016

By clicking on the below listed link, you will be able to view an endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress, Cong Ron DeSantis, Lcdr-USNR (JAGC) (R-FL-6), who is currently running for the US Senate seat vacated by Senator Marco Rubio, questioning Ms Burriesci, DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Screening Coordination, Office of Policy, who testified on Visa Overstays at a House Hearing.  Ms Burriesci appeared in lieu of the Secretary of Homeland Security who refused to appear, and in the video, she responds to questions about DHS’s failure to pursue nearly 500,000 Visa Overstays in 2015.   By clicking on the below listed link, you will be able to view the hearing that Congress was holding in order to seek information about the massive number Visa Overstays who illegally remain in the United States each year.

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An endorsed and elected Combat Veteran For Congress, Congressman Steve Russell, LTC-USA(Ret) (RANGER) (R-OK-5) contacted the Secretary of the Army in September 2015, and requested the Ranger School records for the first two female graduates, Captain Kristen Griest and First Lieutenant Shaye Haver.  Cong Russell concerns had to do with the recent Obama Initiative to force feed women into tip of the spear combat units regardless of how it will affect the “Combat Effectiveness” of Special Forces, Rangers, SEALs, the Delta Force, Green Berets, and Marine Corps Infantry Units.  Obama's agenda for the US Armed Forces for the last 7 years has been destructive, by force feed physically unqualified women into tip of the spear Special Operations units, even if it means negatively affecting the “Combat Effectiveness” of the US Armed Forces and the National Security of the Republic. This new…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on January 15, 2016  

The below listed video, which can be viewed by clicking on the link, explains that a 130 man US Army In-Extremis Force, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group known as C-1/10, that stages out of Stuttgart, Germany, C-1/10 that was activated, is under the operational command of Special Operational Command Europe.  There was an AC-130H Spectre gunship manned and ready on the tarmac in Sigonella, Sicily, 45 minutes away from Benghazi that could have decimated the Radical Islamic Terrorists attacking the US Mission. There was a squadron of US Air Force F-16 jets armed and ready sitting on the tarmac 2 hours away from Benghazi at Aviona Air Force Base, Italy, that could have broken the sound barrier over the heads of the Radical Islamic Terrorist attackers.  The In-Extremis Force was fully manned and ready on the…

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Edits taken from Special Operations Speaks’ Op Ed of January 15 by Capt Joseph R. John, on January 19, 2016

 

On December 3, 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter relayed orders from Obama to the US Armed Forces to integrate women into tip of the spear combat units (SEALs, Green Beret, Ranger, Delta Force, Marine Corps Infantry, Spec Ops Units, etc.) regardless of whether the current physical qualification requirements prevents the integration—this latest Obama order will negatively affect the “Combat Effectiveness” of the US Armed Forces. 

 

On January 1, 2016, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus ordered the US Marine Corps to provide plans by January 15, 2016 for boot camp to go coed. That decision is destructive, and Mabus tried to shroud it in silence.  ABC.com reported that “Mabus also warned US Marine Corps leaders not to openly express any concerns about…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on January 15, 2016

 
The below listed video can be viewed by clicking on the link, it explains that a 130 man US Army In-Extremis Force, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group known as C-1/10, that stages out of Stuttgart, Germany, C-1/10 that was activated is under the operational command of Special Operational Command Europe.  The In-Extremis Force was fully manned and ready on the tarmac in Sigonella, Sicily, 45 minutes away from Benghazi.  They were awaiting orders to launch, but that their rescue mission was held on the tarmac for 12 hours because The White House refused to issue “Cross Border Authority.“

The Commander in Extremis Force was prevented from rescuing the US Mission in Benghazi, Libya, although they were less than one hour away, and ready to strike the 125-150 Radical Islamic Terrorists…

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Edited from “News With Views” by Capt Joseph R. John, on January 8, 2016

Children do become what they are taught! This is why it is so important to pay attention to what is being force fed to US children by the Socialist Common Core Curriculum that has been driven into State, County, and City School Boards by Obama’s Socialist Health Education and Welfare Department over the last 7 years.  Not only has HEW eliminated the US History, Civic, and US Constitution curriculum from school books that were once taught in grammar and high schools, but now we have discovered, that with the help of George Soros, they are facilitating the indoctrination of US School children in the Radical Islamic Teachings of Sheikh Mohammed Fethullah Gulen.  

In the below listed article from “News With Views”, it is reported that John O. Brennan’s CIA is supporting a program of Islamic…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on January 4, 2016  While family oriented American citizens were enjoying the Christmas holidays with their loved ones, Valerie Jarrett and the occupant of the Oval Office, had the Obama’s Attorney General promote HR 569, which violates the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution.  HR Bill 569 referred to in the below listed article, is another reckless and lawless initiative by Obama.  We encourage you to contact your Congressional Representatives and ask them to oppose this Unconstitutional Bill. The Republican Leadership in Congress has failed to employ the power of the purse and has failed to file legal suits in US Federal Court, to restrain Obama’s violations of US Federal Laws, US Immigration Laws, and the US Constitution for over 7 years.  The serious concerns of American citizens is that Congress, in 2016: (1)   Will continue to refuses to take action… Read More

By Capt Joseph R. John, on December 21, 2015 

 

A member of the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC Board of Directors, Connie Stevens, can be viewed singing “Silent Night” with Bob Hope and US Military personnel on the front lines in Vietnam, in a video when you click on the below listed link.  Some of the men viewed in the videos, gave the last full measure of devotion in combat, and were never able to return to their loved ones in the United States. 

 

The 24 endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress in the attachment, and the Board of Directors of the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC send a heartfelt thank you, a Merry Christmas or a Happy Hanukkah, and a Happy New Year to the 23 million Veterans throughout the United States, for their service who at one period in their lives, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America” for an amount “up to…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on December 18, 2015 

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, and other conservative lawmakers have warned against passing the Omnibus Spending Bill that does not place limitations on the admissions of refugees from the Middle East and Africa to the U.S.

“Congress must cancel the President’s blank refugee check and put Congress back in charge of the program. We cannot allow the President to unilaterally decide how many refugees he wishes to admit, nor continue to force taxpayers to pick up the tab for the tens of billions of unpaid-for welfare and entitlement costs,” said Sen Sessions and Sen Richard Shelby (R-AL), the Chairman of the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations subcommittee, in a joint statement last week.

 

In an email to reporters Tuesday, a Senator's…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on December 17, 2015 

 

By reading the below listed article, you will be able to understand just how Speaker Ryan showed his disregard for the American workers, 94 million of whom are unemployed and seeking employment, by jamming through a provision in the 2000 page Omnibus Spending Bill that is allowing over a quarter of a million new low-skilled foreign workers to enter the US and be issued work permits each year and is funding Obama’s ability to migrate 85,000 new UN Muslim Refugees and secretly resettle them in various locations throughout the United States in 2016.

 

The Omnibus Spending Bill is another 2000 page bill that no one in Congress has read, before they had to vote to pass it----shades of Pelosi.  

 

The Omnibus Spending Bill would allow more than a quarter-of-a-million low-skilled foreign guest workers to…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on December 15, 2015

Citizens of foreign lands have “no” constitutional right to migrate to the United States, and US Federal Law provides a president with broad powers in deciding which foreigners are permitted to migrate to the US, and which foreigners are not permitted to migrate, especially in wartime.  The Republic is in fact, a nation at “War” with the Islamic State, ISIS, Al Q’ieda, and Radical Islamic Terrorists who have “Declared War” against the United States.  Radical Islamic Terrorists have been killing Americans for over 45 years.  Clear thinking Patriotic Americans await Congress to “Declare War” against the Islamic State, so the US Armed Forces can put an end to ISIS. 

The left of center liberal media establishment, the Washington ruling political class, and the Obama administration are supporting wide open borders and the…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on December 7, 2015  

In response to various initiatives by Congressmen, including a bill co-authored by an endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress, Cong Ron DeSantis, Lcdr-USNR, (JAGC)(R-FL-6), to halt the entry of Middle East refugees into the United States from certain Middle East and African countries with terrorist ties, until their backgrounds can be vetted to ensure they do not have terrorist ties, a letter signed by well-known members of the Washington Political Ruling Class is asking Congress to back off refugee legislation, which can be read by clicking on the below listed link.  

http://www.humanrightsfirst.

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on December 4, 2015 

Giuliani: Only 'Moron' Can't See Terrorism in Rampage

 

Only a “Politically Correct Fool” would call the action of two masked terrorist who had a massive cache of weapons & dozens of pipe bombs in their home, who pledged allegiance to…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on December 2, 2015

 

On December 1, 2015, Obama met with Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Europe; Obama said he trusts Recep Erdogan, and said Erdogan had every right to shoot down the Russian SU 24 aircraft that was engaged in counter terrorist operations, attacking ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorists.  

 

Why does Obama trust Erdogan, when for the last 5 years, Obama’s daily CIA Intelligence briefs have provided Obama with the below listed information?

 

Why has Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, been training ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorists with Turkish Special Forces at secret bases in the Konya Province inside the Turkish border?  

 

Why is Sümeyye Erdogan, the daughter of the Turkish President, running a secret hospital camp inside Turkey, just over the Syrian border, treating wounded ISIS…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on November 30, 2015

By clicking on the below listed link, you will be able to listen to an interviewer asking young people, tongue in cheek, if they would support Hillary’s plan to replace current US Federal Laws with Sharia Laws.  

 

By the Department of Health Education and Welfare’s (HEW) elimination of the US History and Civics courses, that were once taught in grammar, junior high, and high school classes, and replacing them with the Common Core Curriculum, HEW has negatively affected the nation’s youth’s knowledge of the basis for US Federal Laws and the US History of the Republic. The Common Core Curriculum forced upon all 50 states is simply the re-education of America’s youth, indoctrinating them in a leftist and Socialist philosophy while skewing the truth about US History. 

 

For 239 years education in the US has "…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on November 23, 2015 

Despite the fact that an Islamic Syrian Refugee, with a fake passport, was among the ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorists who murdered 129 peaceful Parisians casually dining in restaurants and others who were attending a music concert in Paris on Friday night, November 13, 2015, and despite the fact that thousands of the Islamic Refugees are single males of military age from throughout the broader Middle East not just from Syria, and despite the fact that Obama is ignoring the FBI’s repeated warning that because documents do not exist, they cannot determine if the Islamic Refugees have terrorist ties. Obama is doubling down and insisting all the Islamic Refugees, estimated to be over 80,000 this year, must be permitted to enter the US under every condition—they have been entering and resettled non-stop.  It may be helpful for clear…

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Forwarded From Heather Swift to Capt Joseph R. John, on November 19, 2015 

 

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American SAFE Act of 2015, legislation that an endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress, Congressman Ryan Zinke, Cdr-USN (Ret) (SEAL), helped author with Congressman Richard Hudson (NC) and House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (TX).  The bill passed 289-137. The American SAFE Act bolsters the refugee screening process to include the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.  Cong Zinke originally introduced the legislation on Monday with Hudson and called on House Speaker Paul Ryan to immediately schedule a vote on the bill. After additions to the…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on November 18, 2015

 

This below listed recording by Bill Whittle with Stefan Molyneux can be listened to by clicking on the below listed link, and is truly “the most outstanding discussion” of how nations in the past progressed toward “Economic Collapse” and possibly why the great civilizations in history collapsed.  It is also a discussion of the r/K Selection Theory---the “Ks” are the Warriors in the gene pool (I have a great deal of respect for Bill’s ability to cut through the chaff, and evaluate dangerous issues affecting the Republic).  

 

The discussion of the r/K Selection Theory is also an excellent analysis of the America’s “Free Market”.  The recording goes on to discuss how the “Free Market” contributes toward “Freedom & Success”, how that “Success” develops an abundance of wealth, and how the corrupt leaders of states…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on November 16, 2015 

 

On 29 June 2014, the group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being named its Caliph, and renamed itself  ad-Dawlah al-Isl?miyah (?????? ?????????, "Islamic State".  The attacks in Paris reflects what happens when Radical Islamic Terrorist take over a substantial part of a country, just as when Al Q’ieda and the Taliban took control of Afghanistan before 9/11 and Al Q’ieda attacked the Twin Towers in New York City.  

 

If you put a very large portion of a nation at the disposal of Radical Islamic Terrorists, major acts of terrorism become inevitable (e.g. the downing of a Russian airliner by an ISIS bomb on October 31st that killed 224 people,  the suicide bombing in a Shite militia stronghold in Beirut on November 12th that killed…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on November 13, 2015 

In the below listed article a US Marine, James Erickson, with a feisty spirit was able to send a scathing Twitter message to the “Million Students Marching” for free college tuition and a minimum wage of $15.00/hr that is taking shape across the nation, by sending a simple selfie photo and message that succinctly expressed his view and those of his fellow Marines, in a way that 1,000 words could have expressed. 

Incidentally, James Erickson and his fellow Marines in their first years of service who are going “Into Harm’s Way” daily in Afghanistan, are earning less than $15.00/hour. 

Marine James Erickson, and all US Marines who not only march, but engage in combat to defend all Americans, ask nothing from their fellow countrymen in return for protecting the “Freedoms” all Americans enjoy.   Semper Fi.

God bless all…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, on Veterans Day November 11, 2015 

On September 23, 2015, an endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress, Cong Kerry Bentivolio, SFC/MI-ANG (R-MI-11) (Ret) (Disabled American Veteran), who is the only Congressman to ever serve combat tours in Vietnam and Iraq, began his walk and biking for 570 miles, to travel from Walled Lake, Michigan to Washington DC, in hopes of waking up the American people and Congress about the urgent need to help Veterans in the Republic, to support Veterans Issues, and to request that their Congressional representatives provide Veterans with the health care benefits they were promised, before they went into harm’s way in defense of the Republic.  Cong Bentivolio also wanted to call attention to the fact that 23 Veterans/day are committing suicide, and that 300,000 Veterans have died across the nation, while waiting to get an…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, November 9, 2015

By clicking on the below listed link, you will be able to view the activities of children in the dependent housing area playground on a Marine Corps military installation.  Their activities change when they hear the call to Evening Colors (the ceremony to lower the American Flag at the end of day)   The Army and Air Force call the ceremony Retreat.  Lowering of the American Flag ceremonies take place at early evening on all military bases. 

Notice the respect those young military dependents have for the American Flag.  Respect for the American Flag has been instilled in those young children by their Marine Corps parents.  If only all the young children in the Republic were as respectful toward the American Flag as the children of US Marines in the video.  At this period in the history of our nation, students in…

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