MARINE-WEEK-CLEVELAND-CHILDREN.JPGView full sizeBinita Biswa, 8, left, and her friend Zaineb Ramahdan, 8, get a first-hand look at some of the weaponry on display near Public Square as the weeklong Marine Week Cleveland kicked off on Monday.

One image sticks with me from Marine Week, the military celebration in Cleveland that wraps up today.

It’s not one of Marines in uniforms mingling in our bars and on our streets, or of their tanks and helicopters

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