Iraq War's 7th Anniversary Came and Went

Iraq War's 7th Anniversary Came and Went
Bob Schieffer Reflects on the Conflict's Impact Upon All of Us, Especially the Men and Women Who've Fought It
By Bob Schieffer
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As the news cycle revolves around health care, Friday marked an important anniversary that received little attention. As Bob Schieffer explain, it was the 7th anniversary of the Iraq war.
(CBS) Washington has always been a one-story town. And for the last few weeks - months, really - the story has been health care reform. It's all we've been talking about.

Which is probably one reason a rather important anniversary passed almost without notice: March 19.

Ring a bell? Probably not. But March 19 was the seventh anniversary of the Iraq invasion, which began our longest war.

A heavy news cycle was not the only reason it went unnoticed. We remember the wars and events that had an impact on our daily lives - December 7, or Sept. 11.

But in the age of the all-volunteer military, few of us remember much about a war that had so little effect on our day-to-day lives - especially a war where questions still exist over whether it should have been fought at all.
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Iraq War 7th Anniversary Came and Went

Iraq War Anniversary Quietly Passes
As thousands more soldiers from The Mountain Post are heading to Iraq, there was little mention that Friday was the seventh anniversary since the start of the war in Iraq.