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    Dispatch from a Soldier in Seoul

    APRIL 30, 2012 2:13PM

    By Linda Treiber


    Topics: hand written letters, military police, koreans are friendly, eating dog meat, korea, far away places. seoul, soldiers, letters

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    • 6 Ratings
    • 950 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    I'm So Sorry, Mr. Robinson

    MAY 13, 2011 6:47AM

    By Backsight Forethought


    Topics: spider robinson, physicist, science fiction, afghanistan, soldiers, war, fiction, writing

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    • 11 Ratings
    • 4128 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    On Missing My Generation’s War

    AUGUST 31, 2010 9:12AM

    By Kemstone


    Topics: war, terrorism, soldiers, politics, military, iraq, bush, afghanistan, 9/11

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    • 6 Ratings
    • 1709 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    The Thing I Made Keeps Growing and Growing

    AUGUST 9, 2010 11:16PM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: open+call, letters for soldiers, military support group, kentucky national guard, marines, air force, airmen, sailors, navy, soldiers, army, support the troops, deployed, care packages, military missions inc, soi, school of infantry, parris island, usmc boot camp

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    • 19 Ratings
    • 2849 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    The Broken Heart of a Wounded Warrior’s Mother

    AUGUST 6, 2010 12:12AM

    By Military Missions


    Topics: ied explosion, semper fidelis, post traumatic stress disorder, tbi, ptsd, army, soldiers, romans 8:28, jonah chapter 2, camp lejuene, marines, wounded warriors, marine corps

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    • 29 Ratings
    • 1687 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    In a Confederate Graveyard

    JUNE 28, 2010 11:01AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: photos of america, open call, roadie, reverence, war dead, lt. gen. nathan bedford forrest, forrest farewell address to cavalry, 14th indiana regiment, 24th tennessee regiment, union army, confederate army, soldiers, division, dissent, obama mcchrystal, mcchrystal rolling stone, general mcchrystal, photography, history, travel, off the beaten path, civil war, confederate graveyard, beech grove tennessee, beech grove confederate cemetery

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    • 20 Ratings
    • 4729 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Blackwater Founder's Visions of Christian Supremacy in Iraq

    AUGUST 5, 2009 9:01AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: politics, television, news, christianity, religion, christian, religious, fundamentalism, military, blackwater, erik prince, keith olbermann, countdown, iraq, soldiers, marines, law, murder, crusade

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 4863 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Ignoring Queen and Country At Normandy

    MAY 28, 2009 3:00PM

    By Heather Michon


    Topics: queen elizabeth, barack obama, nicolas sarkozy, gordon brown, d-day, soldiers, commemoration, anniversary, normandy, world war ii

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 508 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Remembering our veteran's today

    NOVEMBER 11, 2008 7:51AM

    By Writing Raven


    Topics: veteran's day, president bush, obama, soldiers, iraq, afghanistan

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    • 10 Ratings
    • 1486 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Section 60--Arlington Cemetery

    OCTOBER 14, 2008 10:51AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: war dead, iraq, afghanistan, cemetery, politics, john mccain, george bush, soldiers

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    • 16 Ratings
    • 1535 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    The Iraq Museum or American Soldiers' Suicides on Our Watch

    OCTOBER 9, 2008 10:27AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: ptsd, personal story, suicide, politics, iraq, soldiers

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