War_Conflict

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** FILE ** Togolese security forces fire tear gas as they attempt to disperse thousands of angry opposition protesters and anti-government militants on the first day of a planned three-day rally in central Lome, Togo, on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. The demonstrators set fire to tires, threw rocks and erected street barricades as they rallied to protest new electoral rules, perceived to favor the ruling party. (AP Photo/Erick Kaglan)

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In this sequence of images taken from a surveillance video camera and released by the New York City Police Department, police officers approach Jeffrey Johnson, after he shot his former colleague Steven Ercolino, near the Empire State Building in New York, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Johnson, upper left in frames, was shot and killed by police as bystanders fled. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)

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D.C. police and the FBI are investigating three related bank break-ins during which suspects cut holes in the walls of banks in Northwest D.C. and entered through adjacent buildings. (Photo courtesy of the FBI)

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An official inspects evidence near the Empire State Building following a shooting, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in New York. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said some of the victims may have been hit by police bullets as police and the gunman exchanged fire. Police say a recently laid-off worker shot a former colleague to death near the iconic skyscraper and then randomly opened fired on people nearby before firing on police. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Military historian Gregg Clemmer will lead an all-day tour Saturday, demonstrating how Civil War troops crossed the Potomac River.

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First lady Michelle Obama points to supporters at the War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Marine Gen. John R. Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Nicholas Weichel stands next to the casket of his father, Rhode Island National Guard Sgt. Dennis Weichel Jr., who was killed in Afghanistan. The conflict is no longer a hot topic with most Americans, even with 88,000 U.S. troops still fighting there and 2,000 having died there. (Associated Press)