ABC: IAVA's Timothy Kudo reacts to end of Iraq War

On Thursday, December 15, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta attended a ceremony in Baghdad which officially concluded the American war in Iraq. IAVA Senior Membership Associate Timothy Kudo, an OIF/OEF veteran and a former Captain in the Marine Corps, reacts to the news that the war is over.

"I think everyone that served over there is going to look back on this... as a defining moment in their generation," Kudo affirmed.

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