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Transportation Funding vs. Immigration Reform (60 Minutes vs. Saturday Night Live)

Talking Logistics

A few years ago, it was the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If it’s not one thing, it’s another…that keeps transportation infrastructure funding down the priority list for Congress. Then it was Obamacare and health care reform.

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The Weight of Memory

Tailwind

As I watched the last episode of the Vietnam War, I found the scenes of the commitment of the Vietnam Memorial in 1982 in Washington to be especially poignant. In our industry, there are a significant number of people who have served in the military – many of whom served in the more recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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In Memoriam: Colin Luther Powell

Enterra Insights

Bush’s first secretary of state, he pushed faulty intelligence before the United Nations to advocate for the Iraq War, which he would later call a ‘blot’ on his record.”[5] Powell, former secretary of state and military leader, dies at 84 ,” The Washington Post, 18 October 2021. [3] ” Footnotes. [1]

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Memorial Day 2022

Enterra Insights

” Today, veterans who participated in subsequent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are fighting a similar battle. troops were ordered to dispose of military waste by digging big holes in the ground and setting the waste on fire in Iraq and Afghanistan. … Combat medic in Kosovo and Iraq. The smoke was toxic.”[3].

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