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Remembrance Day: Celebrating our Veterans.

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Olayinka Bakare
Nov 11, 2021
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“Arise o compatriots!”

These may be words familiar to nationals of the West African country, Nigeria. But today, we choose to borrow those words as a charge to honor our war veterans. Our veterans are not men lacking in courage. Their exploits do not indicate lack of fear, rather they choose to tame their fear and chisel it to become a tool for exploits.

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