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Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden on Thursday saluted the nation’s troops as the “very spine of America” at a Veterans Day ceremony in Arlington National Cemetery — the first since the end of military operations in Afghanistan. Biden also paid tribute to the late retired four-star general Colin Powell, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state who died last month of complications from Covid-19, after a battle with cancer. “Our veterans represent the best of America,” Biden said at the ceremony, which also marked the 100th anniversary of the hallowed Tomb of th…