Tears, fears as U.S. family sees son off to war
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LAWRENCE, Kansas  - They gathered to send Aaron Emerson off to war. His father cursed, his grandmother cried, his mother was just numb.
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Mourners cry over the rubble of their relative&#39;s house, which was destroyed during an over night US air raid in the western Sunni city of Falluja.
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Families of local soldiers and Marines serving in Iraq have a new worry as US and Iraqi troops launch a major strike in the city of Fallujah.
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For many soldiers and family members, the repercussions of wartime deployments are one of the toughest, least discussed byproducts of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The attack sent shudders through a region where anger toward the U.S. has surged in recent weeks.
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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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Through their grief and anger, relatives of an American construction worker beheaded in Iraq extended prayers for an American and a
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The slaying in the United States of a retired Air Force officer and his family has left their friends in the Kaiserslautern military community stunned and saddened.
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In a grim marker of the longevity of the Iraq war, children too young to remember losing a parent in action are growing up.
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Kevin Lackey is eager to take what he's learned in the Marine Reserves into war in Iraq. Theresa Lackey can't bear to watch the news, for fear she'll see soldiers searching for the enemy in houses pockmarked by bullet holes &#151; the kind of work her son has been training for.
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For weeks, Chief Warrant Officer Jason DeFrenn's family awaited his homecoming, a trip planned as much more than a simple respite from his second tour in Iraq: The nine-year Army veteran was returning to South Carolina to help his wife give birth. Instead, his loved ones are making plans for the 34-year-old Army pilot's funeral.
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News that the Pentagon wants to double death benefits for families of U.S. troops killed in Iraq reminded Tracy Miller, whose son, Marine Cpl. Nicholas Lee Ziolkowski, died there in November, of an old summer-camp yarn:
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As the U.S. military sustained its deadliest day since the Iraq war began, members of Congress expressed sadness and division over how the United States should proceed.
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A father of a Black Watch soldier has spoken of his worry for his son&#39;s safety following reports that three soldiers have been killed in Iraq.
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With longer deployments, continued chaos in Iraq and a growing death toll, a weariness has set in among many military families.
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Clutching his 1-year-old son, Ali Abbas Tehfi pushed his wife and their 2-year-old son into a car and prayed. Trapped for two weeks in a border village at the epicenter of a raging ground battle, the American and his family made their escape Wednesday. But Tehfi's elderly grandmother had to be left behind in Yaroun, because she was too frail to travel. He said more Americans were still stuck in the town.
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LAPORTE, Ind. -- The mother of a northern Indiana soldier killed in Iraq said her son joined the Army because he wanted to be like his father.