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6. People died to get unions too

Reply to jtuck004 (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 28, 2013, 06:44 AM

Jun 2013

Nowadays, many people have lost sight of those before us who fought, and sometimes died, to make their children's future lives so much better than what they had. How many today think about their children's futures, rather than having the 'me first' attitude.

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