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Editor's note: Byrne Bennett is a reporter for the Lincoln County Record-Times. Any opinion expressed in this column is his own and not necessarily that of The Record-Times or Free Press Publishing.

President Ronald Reagan once said, "America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere."

The members of our Armed Forces are the keepers of that beacon. If not for them, that light would have been snuffed out decades ago.

Veterans Day is an important date on my calendar. My father and ten of my uncles, all from Lincoln County, served our country in...