Long Stints in Iraq Fracture Families
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FORT STEWART, Ga. -- As a gray dawn broke, hundreds of 3rd Infantry Division soldiers gathered on a Georgia marching ground this month and listened to a long list of names of fallen comrades. Taps rose mournfully above rows of young redbud trees planted for each of the division's 317 soldiers who...
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Iraqis inspect the rubble of a destroyed house following US air strikes on the city of Falluja. Photograph: Mohammed Khodor/Reuters.
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NEW YORK - This summer, a series of long, investigative articles explored why most US troops in Iraq still do not have vehicles that could protect them from explosives, though the vehicles were available years ago and the Iraqi military has them.
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Most of the troops lost in the U.S. military's deadliest crash of the Iraq war were based in Hawaii, but they came from coast to coast, from Florida to New Hampshire, from Ohio to Oregon. One was a 28-year-old who never got the chance to meet his son born on Christmas Eve.
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For generations to come, Iraqis will have to cope with the physical and mental scars of tens of thousands of people severely injured in the violence of the past four years.
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War lives on long after the last clods of dirt turn over a soldier&#039;s grave. It hangs from the faces of husbands and wives &amp;#151; mostly wives &amp;#151; whose lives crumble after foreign horrors take their spouses.
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NEW YORK  - Contrary to what has been shown  in other reports, Gulf War veterans and their spouses are not  at increased risk for peripheral neuropathy, a type of nerve  problem that often involves numbness and tingling in the arms  and legs, new research shows.
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Children and their families, shattered by war, find care for devastating wounds in Jordan.
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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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An Army National Guardsman from upstate New York suffered more than 500 skull fractures when a bomb exploded in Iraq, his mother said Monday.
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TALL AFAR, Iraq -- A three-foot-high coil of razor wire, 21-ton armored vehicles and American soldiers with black M-4 assault rifles stood between tens of thousands of people and their homes last week.
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The mother of a Ballston Spa soldier injured Friday in Iraq flew from Washington, D.C., late Tuesday afternoon to be with her son as he recovers.
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For relatives and friends of U.S. troops serving in Iraq, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" was the place to be.
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ABU GHRAIB, Iraq -- Hamid Taleb Shal al-Zubayi was driving his pregnant daughter to a midwife in Fallujah three weeks ago when either American or Iraqi snipers targeted the family. A bullet struck his wife in the hip, and he was forced to leave his daughter at a relative's house while rushing his wife to Yarmouk Hospital in Baghdad.
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LAWTON, Okla. - A 72-year-old great-grandmother is preparing for deployment to the war zone in Iraq and will become one of the oldest Department of Defense civilian workers in the war zone.
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By Peter Marteka, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 11--On an October day in 2003, two soldiers were doing routine maintenance on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq when the tire they were inflating with high-pressure nitrogen exploded.
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The Black Watch are being reunited with relatives after six months in Iraq, including a month near Baghdad.