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The Impact of War
N.H. Soldier To Be Buried With Full Military Honors
October 24, 2008 • Before he went to Afghanistan, Cpl. Scott Dimond was part of the honor guard with the New Hampshire National Guard. Dimond was killed by a bomb earlier this month. Now he'll be the one getting the military honors from his colleagues.
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A Voter Registration Mission In Baghdad
October 24, 2008 • Sgt. Asa Rubman is a paralegal serving with the armed forces in Iraq — and he's organized a get-out-the-vote drive on his base in southern Baghdad. Capt. Nate Rawlings, a regular Day To Day contributor, tells us about Sgt. Rubman.
From The Iraq War, A Troubled Romance In America
October 17, 2008 • A former U.S. Marine and his Iraqi wife, who met when she worked as a translator in Fallujah, are struggling to adjust to married life and raise a family in America. And their future is anything but certain.
Military Spouses Make Their Own Sacrifices
October 16, 2008 • Being married to someone in the military can be tough. There is the stress of repeated deployments, meaning managing the household alone. And it's hard to put down roots or build a career because the military usually requires people to move every few years.
Intelligence Squared U.S.
Is The U.S. Finally Winning The War In Iraq?
October 15, 2008 • Nearly everyone agrees that the surge — or some confluence of events — has improved security in Iraq. But is the United States actually winning? Four experts debated the topic during the latest in the Intelligence Squared U.S. series.
War Memorial In A Chicago Shop Window
September 26, 2008 • A shopkeeper in Chicago has created a memorial to soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not everybody who passes by understands why he's decorated his shop window with distressing images.
Psychiatrists Protest Pentagon Interrogations
September 26, 2008 • The nation's leading organization of psychiatrists says the Pentagon has reneged on an agreement not to use psychiatrists in interrogations of detainees at Guantanamo and other detention sites.
Attacking Al-Qaida In Pakistan
September 13, 2008 • The U.S. military raid in Pakistan last week was part of an intensified campaign to attack al-Qaida and the Taliban inside Pakistan. NPR's Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman talks with host Scott Simon about how CIA officers are being pulled from around the world for this campaign.
West Point Grads Answer Call In 'Time Of War'
September 11, 2008 • Bill Murphy Jr., author of In a Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002, recounts how life changed for him and his classmates after Sept. 11, 2001.
Pride, Concern As Candidates' Sons Head To War
September 11, 2008 • Whichever ticket wins the election in November, it will be the first time in decades that the president, vice president or both have children serving in the armed forces during wartime. But some worry about the burden on a president or VP of having a child on the battlefield.
Bob Woodward Details A White House Divided
September 9, 2008 • The surge in Iraq is one of the issues that divides the presidential candidates, but Bob Woodward's new book, The War Within, reveals that it also divided the Bush administration and the military.
The Homefront Essay
September 6, 2008 • Commentator Rebekah Sanderlin's husband is serving his third tour in Afghanistan. Does she miss him? Yes. Is she glad he's gone? Kind of. She looks back on a tough eight months and manages to find the upside of down.
Treating Iraqi Children For PTSD
August 25, 2008 • The war in Iraq has had a severe impact on the country's children. More than 650 children were reported killed there last year. Iraq's children also have been the victims of kidnapping, torture and rape. A clinic for children suffering post-traumatic stress disorder is opening this month in Baghdad.
Soldiers' Deaths Shake Cape Cod Town
August 20, 2008 • The deaths last week of two local service members from Cape Cod has stunned the small town of Mashpee. Within a day of each other, Army Pfc. Paul Conlon was killed in Afghanistan and Marine Corps Pfc. Daniel McGuire was killed in Iraq.
Burned Soldier Continues Long Road To Recovery
August 20, 2008 • Army Staff Sgt. Robert Henline is trying to reclaim his life. Burned badly in Iraq, he's back home in Texas. He's finding that his injuries are difficult to treat, his recovery is long and unpredictable, and his family life is completely changed.
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