Vets Mark 20th Anniversary of Gulf War

January 17, 2011Twenty years ago today, American aircraft and other forces began bombing Iraq, the opening salvos in an American-led coalition to liberate Kuwait from the Iraqi military.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein promised victory in "the mother of all battles." A month later, his soldiers were surrendering en masse to coalition units and he was pulling those he had left out of the small, oil-rich nation he had seized six months prior.

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