By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Watchdog
They punched the Nazis in the mouth, rolled back imperial Japan in the Pacific then stared down communism for another 40 years.
No way a few barricades and some security guards were going to tell 90 World War II veterans from Illinois the government shutdown closed the World War II Memorial.
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