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Within a year after the end of world war II, the United States would be engaged in a new conflict that would become known as the Cold War. The struggle unfolded over the frigid mountains of Korea and the steaming jungles of Vietnam. It stretched along European borders where NATO and Warsaw Pact tanks squared off and reached high into the sky with the Strategic Air Command. The Omaha World-Herald takes a special look back at Nebraskans and Iowans who served and sacrificed to prevent nuclear war and to lift the Iron Curtain.