Great-Grandmother Being Deployed to Iraq
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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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A former Ohio Army Reserve commander who was court-martialed for taking abandoned Army vehicles in Kuwait so her unit could carry out its mission in Iraq returned home Monday after serving a six-month sentence.
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SYLVESTER, Ga. Did you hear the one about the great-grandmother who gave birth to twins? Well, you&#39;re about to. Frances Harris of Georgia, who&#39;s 59 and has six great-grandchildren, is scheduled to deliver twins December 21st.
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Nine hundred reservists are to be deployed to Iraq, the government has announced.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen seized the head of CARE International&#39;s operations in Iraq - a woman who has worked on behalf of Iraqis for three decades - as the British government today weighed a politically volatile American request to transfer soldiers to dangerous
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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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Cynthia Burks doesn't just talk about supporting her country's troops serving in Iraq.
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First lady Laura Bush told hundreds of U.S. troops Thursday that the American people stand by them in the Iraq war and the security situation in the country was improving due to their efforts.
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WASHINGTON -- Army Secretary Pete Geren ruled out extending troop deployments yesterday beyond the current 15 months, saying that longer tours in Iraq put stress on soldiers and their families and have contributed to an increase in suicides.
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The family of a soldier wounded in Iraq has been in turmoil since hearing word of their son s serious injuries in Tikrit.
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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y., Feb. 26 -- In a light-filled lobby of a hospital for sick children, an American mother talked on Monday with an Iraqi father about how their lives had been altered and entwined by a war thousands of miles away.
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The Maine National Guard is giving life-size pictures of soldiers to the families of deployed guard members to help them connect with their missing relative.
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By Jan A. Igoe, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  May 30--While Army Sgt. Melissa Dion was serving in Iraq last year, she still found a way to surprise her dad with a fabulous Christmas present. Dion chartered the Southern Exposure out of Georgetown for a Memorial Day weekend fishing trip.
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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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TOKYO -- Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan's fallen soldiers, including her grandfather, General Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II prime minister who ordered the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Thousands follow a long-dead soldier's fate as a descendant posts a series of real letters home.
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TORONTO (CP) - A Chicago-based National Guard unit ferried a Canadian woman to freedom Tuesday after she said she was missing for 16 days in northern Iraq, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Wednesday.