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Here Comes the Sun: Rachel Maddow and more

Television host and author Rachel Maddow sits down with Rita Braver to discuss her latest book, “Prequel.” Then, Martha Teichner meets with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, now back on a two-year tour after shutting down in 2017. “Here Comes the Sun” is a closer look at some of the people, places and things we bring you every week on “CBS Sunday Morning.” Source

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Honoring America’s war dead far from home

100 years ago the American Battle Monuments Commission was created to honor fallen and missing service members overseas, with the promise that “Time will not dim the glory of their deeds.” Source

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Honoring America’s war dead overseas

One hundred years ago the American Battle Monuments Commission was created to honor fallen and missing service members overseas. Today the commission manages cemeteries, memorials, monuments and markers in far-off places like France, Tunisia and the Philippines. Correspondent Seth Doane visits an American cemetery in southern Italy, where servicemen who gave their lives to liberate that country from the Nazis in World War II are watched over, with the promise that “Time will not dim the glory of their deeds.” Source

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