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War Memorial posted on December 23, 2009 by admin

After more than a decade of planning, a war memorial honoring the nation’s nearly 3,500 recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award, was unveiled in downtown LA during out trip to the Veteran’s summit and we had the honor of being invited to attend. In the photo below, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa addresses the crowd. Robert and I are standing behind Hector Elizondo and Lupe Ontiveros, Hispanic Actors who participated in the reading of the names of Latino heroes.

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