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The Party (www.vetvoice.com)
That passage was written by Brian Delate after he got back, and it's one of several dozen in a really powerful book called Everything We Had. It's a scene to which I've kept coming back for a while... More
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"A vote for John McCain is a vote for ONE veteran, a vote for Barack Obama is a vote for ALL veterans." (www.huffingtonpost.com)
Since the early days of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers have been returning home and finding themselves engaged in politics for the first time in their lives. Many of us have taken the lead... More
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Post-traumatic stress is war within the body (www.hattiesburgamerican.com)
Post-traumatic stress disorder, once a poorly understood and little-known mental health problem, is turning up on the public's radar a lot more as growing numbers of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans... More
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Ky. Senate candidates discuss views on Iraq war (www.theleafchronicle.com)
Both Sen. Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Bruce Lunsford have featured military veterans in their television advertising, but the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have not been a focal point of... More
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Gates acknowledges stress on families (www.militarytimes.com)
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday acknowledged the stress that the extended wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are placing on military families, saying the Pentagon is concerned and monitoring... More
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The Case Against the Continued Occupation and Escalation of the War in Afghanistan (www.truthout.org)
Despite some subtle nuances regarding a timetable for the phased withdrawal of at least a portion of the combat troops from Iraq, the positions of both John McCain and Barack Obama regarding the wars... More
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E-mail From Afghanistan (www.theatlantic.com)
I arrived in Bagram Air Force Base (BAF), Afghanistan on Sept. 27th, 2008, and over the course of two days, turned in my ammunition and sat through briefings about vehicle safety, family discord,... More
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Spec ops soldiers rescue American hostage (www.militarytimes.com)
U.S. Special Forces soldiers conducting a daring nighttime operation freed a kidnapped American working for the Army Corps of Engineers — the first known rescue by American forces in Afghanistan.
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Veterans Get Alternative Court System In Oklahoma (www.mtv.com)
The plains of Oklahoma are a far cry from the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, but that's where former Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant John "Gunny" Bennett realized the familiarity of... More
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How We Lost the War We Won (www.rollingstone.com)
The highway that leads south out of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, passes through a craggy range of arid, sand-colored mountains with sharp, stony peaks. Poplar trees and green fields line the... More
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