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Editorial Today is the 55th anniversary of 403 U.S. 713 (1971), the Supreme Court decision that allowed the New York Times and Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers. I was a child then, but the significance of the ruling and what followed did not escape me. It meant my Uncle Jimmy shouldn’t have been drafted, let alone sent to Viet Nam. My family was lucky. Uncle Jimmy came home and led a relatively normal life. For other families, the revelation came much too late for that. If i

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