Soldier Finds Comfort at Dark Journey's End
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Everything in Ward 3D East is locked, even the windows. Located inside the District of Columbia VA Medical Center, only three miles from the Veterans Affairs headquarters where national health policies are made, the psychiatric ward is a refuge for mentally ill homeless veterans and those plagued...
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âIn the Shadow of the Moonâ is a morale booster. The power of its archival images hasnât diminished with familiarity.
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Ever since Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Kelly lost his right leg to a roadside bomb near Baghdad more than a year ago, he has been on a mission. It was more than just learning how to walk again on a prosthetic limb or figuring out what to do with his life after 13 months at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. Kelly, 24, of Prescott, Ariz., saw a need to help other wounded soldiers and their families cope with the financial struggles that come with months of rehabilitation.
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Tributes are played to a British soldier killed in Afghanistan after he is named by the Ministry of Defence.
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As Mark Amirault crossed the finish line, he didn't wear the expression of torture most runners have when they finish a cross-country race. He didn't look like he was gasping for air, struggling to walk, or grimacing because of the strain on his legs. He looked like he just stepped out of the sauna.
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U.S. troops returning here from Iraq and Afghanistan on Christmas didn't complain about long deployments, a lack of protective armor and other aspects of the war effort. They were just happy to be with family.
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The sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the road. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptured. Her right side was marked by the angular tread of a tire.
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A close friend of the latest soldier killed in action in Iraq spoke today of the family&#39;s shock and devastation at the news of his death.
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US soldiers returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder are being treated with virtual reality.
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The death of a fourth Black Watch soldier in Iraq has made the troops more determined to complete their mission, a spokesman says.
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He was back in uniform, back where he belonged. Twenty-seven pounds lighter. On the verge of a promotion to staff sergeant. Happy again, and sober. A man escaping an ugly past to build a respectable future.
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TO THE British, it was a war cemetery. To the villagers of Stahnsdorf in the former East Germany, its annual Remembrance Day service was their window to freedom.
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Bonus book excerpt: The caregivers who work with combat amputees face their own emotional challenges--and rise to the occasion
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How does war feel? In "The Big Red One," Samuel Fuller, a former infantryman, gave the most honest answer he could.
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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Spread across several tables in a vast warehouse here are the pieces of one soldier's life.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Falklands war veteran  Marcelo Torres was so desperate to escape the battlefield  horrors that still plagued his dreams two decades after the  conflict that he put a gun to his temple and pulled the  trigger.
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Thousands follow a long-dead soldier's fate as a descendant posts a series of real letters home.