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  1. May 2022
    1. In a ceremony held in Baghdad on December 15, 2011, the war that began in 2003 with the American-led invasion of Iraq officially comes to an end. Though today was the official end date of the Iraq War, violence continued and in fact worsened over the subsequent years.

      This date is the date of my great grandmother's birthday. She passed when I was a year and a half old but my family says that in her last year when she was very sick she always smiled when she got to see and hold me and it made her day.