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HIT: Traffic was snarled for a little while in downtown Carnegie Monday, but it wasn’t a typical slowdown caused by an accident or construction. Instead, it was because about 20 coach buses carrying veterans to Washington, D.C.

, made a stop in the Allegheny County community so they could enjoy a hearty lunch at Cefalo’s Banquet and Event Center. The 400 veterans who were there served in the Vietnam and Korean conflicts, as well as World War II, and were traveling at no cost to Washington, D.C.



, as part of the VetsRoll program, which was launched in 2010 to honor the service of veterans and allow them to make a free trip to the nation’s capital. This journey also included a stop at the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Given the sacrifices they made, a free trip to D.

C. is a small but important way to say thanks, particularly for those veterans who would otherwise be unable to make the trip on their own. MISS: Way back in 2007, the Pew Research Center found that 40% of Americans believed that the media devoted too much attention to celebrity news, citing endless stories about the travails of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

Seventeen years later, Paris Hilton is now “Paris Who?” and Spears has retreated to a Las Vegas residency. But the obsession with celebrity continues, with a prime exhibit being “NBC Nightly News” leading one of its newscasts last week with a story on musician Sean Combs viciously beating up his girlfriend at a hotel eight year.

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