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Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

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Christopher Bond
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 1
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Christopher Godfrey Bond
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