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Congresswoman-elect Tulsi Gabbard will carry a photo of Nainoa Hoe, a Hawaii soldier who was killed in Iraq in 2005, at today’s groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Memorial Education Center.

Sponsors of the 51st annual Nuuanu Valley Interfaith Thanksgiving this year found in U.S. Rep.-elect Tulsi Gabbard a keynote speaker whose core values of diversity, unity and service to others are shared by many religions.

As the first Hindu-American to be elected to Congress, Gabbard said Tuesday she was raised "in a multiracial, multicultural and multifaith family."

A decade of wars abroad has not reversed the decline in military veterans serving in the U.S. Congress. When the next session convenes in January, the two chambers will have the fewest number of veterans serving since World War II. It's a continuation of a nearly four-decade-long decline of veterans in office since the peak of their service in the years after the Vietnam War.

Carol Costello speaks to Hawaii Representative-elect Tulsi Gabbard. She'll be the 1st female combat veteran in Congress.