Center For American Progress | Among the Graves This Memorial Day New York Times Today, there are families knotted in mourning for a soldier recently lost in Iraq or Afghanistan. There are families for which mourning has become an absence more persistently felt than they could ever have imagined. There is still a generation ... California home to more wounded and killed veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan ... Memorial Day Patriotism: Cannon Fodder for the Merchants of Death Memorial Day 2011: Let Us Especially Remember... |
Fox News | Camp helps children of war dead learn to cope Austin American-Statesman After Brooke Nyren's dad died in Iraq, she sat alone at recess because her classmates didn't know what to say. One of Alexis Wright's fellow kindergartners questioned whether she was telling the truth about her dad's death in the war, and others told ... Children of Fallen Troops Turn to Each Other Children of Fallen Soldiers Grieve Together at Camp Children of fallen troops turn to each other |
New York Times | Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Need Support in College! Huffington Post (blog) Nine years ago Joe sustained an injury to his right hand on a hot, desolate Iraq road while disarming an improvised explosive device (IED) as he protected his fellow soldiers. Eight years ago he sat in my Ethics class, serious, tightly wound, ... Troubled Veterans and Early Deaths After Iraq From Battlefield to Workplace Vets face poor mental health care |
abc13.com | Explosion wounds Iraqi defense minister candidate CNN Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A roadside bomb explosion ripped through a car in eastern Mosul Sunday, wounding an Iraqi defense minister candidate and his driver, police said. Khalid al-Obaidi was heading home when the blast struck. ... Candidate for defense minister escapes bomb attack in northern Iraq FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 29 Iraq's “February Youth Movement” to hold news conference after detention of 4 ... |
Al-Arabiya | Kuwait-Iraq ties: The curse of history and geography gulfnews.com By Abdullah Al Shayji, Special to Gulf News Finally there is the resurrection of old hostilities and grievances with Kuwait, Iraq's smaller neighbour. The country which Saddam Hussain occupied, pillaged and claimed as Iraq's 19th province two decades ... Kuwait seizes Iraq airline assets in Jordan-officials Iraqi Airways' funds in Jordan insignificant - official $1.5 million in Iraqi Airways assets frozen in dispute with Kuwait over Gulf ... |
The Age | Bradley Manning's Father Says His Greatest Fear Is Son Is Guilty ABC News The thought that his son could be guilty of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks -- including Afghan and Iraq war logs, a quarter of a million State Department cables and two videos -- scares the elder Manning. He hasn't had a chance to ask his ... AUDIO: Hay debates Wikileaks accused WikiLeaks soldier Manning 'was too fragile to be in Iraq' Bradley Manning Should Not Have Been Sent To Iraq: Report |
Pasadena family still mourns death of son, killed in Iraq San Gabriel Valley Tribune He was killed behind his machine gun only five weeks after arriving in Iraq. He was 21. Irene remembers the moment her son told her he was going to join the military. They were in the kitchen. He was 17 and 9/11 had just happened. ... |
Los Angeles Times | Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, Obama's choice to head Joint Chiefs, is a low-tech soldier Washington Post David Fastabend, who served with Dempsey in Iraq. “For him it is all about leadership.” Dempsey was sworn in as Army chief of staff only last month, but will give up that position in the fall when Adm. Mike Mullen, the current chairman of the Joint ... Obama to name top army chief General Martin Dempsey, a Proven Military Failure, Selected for Top Pentagon Post Obama's next military chief to face budget battle |
Brothers in arms headed for Kuwait and Iraq Duluth News Tribune Brothers Chris and Phillip Anderson are heading for Kuwait and Iraq with the Minnesota National Guard. The Anderson brothers and their father, Tim, pose for a portrait in March at Chris Anderson's wedding, (from left) Shane Anderson, Tim Anderson, ... |
Ammon News | Iraq, Jordan Sign Deal for Railway Line Linking Port of Aqaba to Baghdad Bloomberg Jordan and Iraq signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a rail line linking the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba with the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Petra said, citing Jordanian Transport Minister Muhannad ... Jordan, Iraq sign deal to develop Baghdad-Aqaba railway Jordan, Iraq sign accord for rail linkage Jordan and Iraq sign accord for new rail link |