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In this Nov. 30, 2017 photo, an Ixil Maya man prays next to the niches where 172 civil war victims were placed, at the cemetery in Santa Avelina, Guatemala. Since the exhumations in Santa Avelina began in 2014, experts have identified 108 of the victims through DNA testing or through personal objects recognized by surviving family members. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)
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Moises Castillo - Associated Press
During Guatemala's civil war, the government forced tens of thousands of farmers into so-called model villages under strict army control to isolate them from the guerrillas. Hundreds were left to die.
US Air Force F-106As in flight in the early 1960s. Planes such as these were on high alert and ready to launch airstrikes on Soviet missile positions in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Antonio De Loera-Brust
While a comparison with the Cuban Crisis does little to reassure us, it can offer some lessons on how our government avoided disaster in an even worse situation. We have been closer to the brink and still found a way to walk back.
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Catholic News Service
The photo shows a young boy, about 10 years old, carrying his dead little brother on his back.
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Peter Steinfels
To those of us who campaigned against the Vietnam War as unjust and unwinnable, Daniel Ellsberg was a hero.
Pope Francis waves as he arrives to deliver his Christmas message and blessing "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Dec. 25. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Standing on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on a clear, crisp Christmas day, Pope Francis spoke about the world's children before formally giving his blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world).
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Roy Thomas
The continued costs and casualties alone should lead parents, taxpayers and indeed politicians to care.