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The man who commanded desert storm
U.S. late international portion.

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I drove Saddam Hussein's forces out
of Kuwait in nineteen ninety

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one has died retired general Norman
Schwarz cough was seventy

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eight years old he passed away Thursday
in tampa florida where

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he was living in retirement his
last military assignment was

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commander of U.S. central command
defense secretary leon panetta

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called general Schwartz coughed one
of the great military giants

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of the twentieth century in a statement
the secretary said the

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men in one another the pardon of
the fence joining in mourning

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the loss of general Norman Schwartz
cough whose thirty five years

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a service in uniform left an indelible
imprint on the next day

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its military and the country.

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Gels for ta followed his father's
legacy a service my enrolling

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a west point the nineteen fifties.
He did two tours in vietnam

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earning three silver stars..