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For Veterans Day, we recognize the skiing soldiers of World War II. Members of the 10th Mountain Division trained at Camp Hale in Leadville. In October, President Biden declared it a national monument. These troops fought to take Mt. Belvedere, in Italy's Apennine Mountains. And their victory was a turning point in the war. Producer Joe Richman, of Radio Diaries, brings us their story.