Mothers of 2 soldiers, 1 killed, reflect
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Rita Richardson smiles at the memory: Her young son Dan, prowling the woods dressed in camouflage and green face paint or jumping off the shed like a paratrooper. But she wanted her little commando to know that war was more than a game.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Wailing mothers mourned for  their children on Sunday at the first burials of the 338 people  killed when Chechen rebels seized a Russian school, while  officials expressed remorse or offered to quit over the  carnage.
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In a marker of the Iraq warâs longevity, children too young to remember losing a parent in action are growing up.
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KILLEEN, Texas -- Hollie Keahtigh had hoped until Thursday that her husband, an Army captain in Fort Hood's First Cavalry Division, would be home from Iraq to spend Christmas with her, their 5-year-old son, and 2-year-old daughter.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - Holding a sign that said "Welcome Home Charlie," Beth Landis could barely contain her emotion as she waited to embrace her husband, a U.S. infantry sergeant, a year after he was sent to Iraq.
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The families of the two soldiers whose bodies were found Tuesday in Iraq were upset that first word of the gruesome discovery came from Iraqi authorities.
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Childhood friends who enlisted in the Marine Corps together and died together in Iraq were buried side by side.
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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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HERI Golun&#39;s mother covered her face with her hands and rocked backwards. The news her son was a suicide bomber was almost too much to bear.
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Relatives of the Black Watch soldier who died in an accident during a controversial redeployment of troops in Iraq have said they are &quot;devastated&quot;.
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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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CAMP ISTIQLAAL, Iraq -- Even when you're a soldier far from home, a few of your buddies have died, and there's a chance you'll never return, Christmas must go on.
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One person can tell you precisely how many Americans have been killed in Iraq. Another pays close attention to the names and hometowns of those who die each week. A third mourns for the families of fallen U.S. troops, but also figures it was their choice to enlist.
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Many of them are bent and broken, grayer and wider. Some carry shrapnel from a step too far, an ambush replayed over and over. All of them carry memories.
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AUGUSTA, Maine -- Barbara Damon-Day, the mother of a Maine Army National Guard captain who died of unexplained causes while serving in Afghanistan, has been on a mission of her own.
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Police are expected to release more details of how a mother and her children, found dead at their home, died.
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It is difficult to find anything positive about war, but the pictures in the news of children and their military fathers loving each other have been heart-rending. They remind us that there is nothing on Earth more precious and sacred than the love between fathers and their children.