Iraq war widows seek strength amid loss
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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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The family of a soldier killed in Iraq launch a campaign opposing the war and seeking "justice" for personnel and their families.
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First, American soldiers scoured the home for weapons as four veiled Iraqi women cowered on a dusty rug. Then a platoon sergeant politely wiped his muddy boots, came in and talked to the family about the violence suffocating their city.
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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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Afraid to stray from home, residents buried the dead in their gardens Saturday as US and Iraqi forces battled pockets of resistance in this former insurgent stronghold, where
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Darcy Woodke recalls the day she picked up her husband and several of his National Guard buddies after they got back from Iraq.
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Researchers have estimated that as many as 100,000 more Iraqis - many of them women and children - died since the start of the US-led invasion of Iraq than would have been expected otherwise, based on the death rate before the war.
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Some worry that not enough support exists to help US troops bear the psychological toll of having killed.
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TIKRIT, Iraq, Dec. 25  -- The roaring bonfire licked the dark sky as Jennifer and Jeremiah Pray leaned closer to the pulsing warmth. Their faces glowing, their eyes bright, they relished their first Christmas Eve together in more than three years of marriage, not to mention the brief respite from the war going on around them.
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Description: The kidnapping of two Italian aid workers in Iraq has united their home country. The women were both known as opponents of the Iraq war.
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As the nation pauses on Memorial Day to honor its war dead, one woman is working to keep alive the memory of her son, who was killed in Iraq while serving as a civilian contractor.
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WASHINGTON -- The first nationwide survey of Iraqi deaths since the US-led invasion concludes that about 100,000 people have died as a result of the war, including many women and children killed in coalition airstrikes.
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The brother of the first British female soldier to die in Iraq since the war began said today her family were trying to come to terms with her death.
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Women with postchildbirth complications are often ostracized by their own families, but one man took his wife through a war zone to get her treatment.
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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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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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Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Cowie's mission &#151; and dream &#151; of serving in Iraq almost ended before it began when tests on a tumor confirmed the worst: She had breast cancer.