veteran
Example Sentences
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But Golding, a World War II veteran, had seen firsthand the horrors of D-Day.
"We learned at his feet," said Al Sharpton, a fellow veteran civil rights activist who had worked with Jackson at Operation Breadbasket decades earlier.
From BBC
Russian veterans can choose between public and private facilities, and are offered a host of rehabilitation programmes and cash pay-outs depending on the severity of their wounds.
From Barron's
Army veteran who is researching balloon navigation technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Again, no action was taken against the 44-year-old veteran of four Olympics.
From BBC
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