150 years of Stars & Stripes

Thursday, November 10, 2011

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - With tattered edges, slightly faded newsprint, unidentifiable smudges and folds still marked with yellow where Scotch tape once bound the edges, this first printing of the Stars and Stripes newspaper shows its 150 years as today marks the birthday of a military newspaper now more than 50,000 editions strong.

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