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Honoring America’s war dead far from home

100 years ago the American Battle Monuments Commission was created to honor fallen and missing service members overseas, with the promise that “Time will not dim the glory of their deeds.” Source

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Honoring America’s war dead overseas

One hundred years ago the American Battle Monuments Commission was created to honor fallen and missing service members overseas. Today the commission manages cemeteries, memorials, monuments and markers in far-off places like France, Tunisia and the Philippines. Correspondent Seth Doane visits an American cemetery in southern Italy, where servicemen who gave their lives to liberate that country from the Nazis in World War II are watched over, with the promise that “Time will not dim the glory of their deeds.” Source

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Bradley Cooper on “Maestro”

The star’s second film as director tells the love story between composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein and his wife, actress Felicia Montealegre – a marriage complicated by the fact that Bernstein also had affairs with men. Source

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A class where imagination takes flight

At the Trinity Leadership school near Dallas, Sonja White’s first-graders are flying high, reliving their amazing one-day flight south of the border – a plane trip to Mexico. Yet, they never actually left the classroom. Correspondent Steve Hartman reports on a clever teacher, and some very eager passengers. Source

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Hamas’ tunnels: Piercing a battleground beneath Gaza

Normal tactics of warfare change in the environment that the terrorist group has dug beneath the Gaza Strip. CBS News looks at the difficulties military forces face, and the technologies being developed (including autonomous robots), to take on an enemy underground. Source

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