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One man's extraordinary walk across America
Staff WriterSEELEY — Joe “Tiger” Patrick has been carrying across the country the names and faces of the 6,655 service men and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan on a 200-square-foot banner. He began his walk April 26 from Coronado Beach and...Tags: Genetic Condition, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Washington Post, Iraq War (2003-2011), Washington, DC
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The struggle for Syria
My cousin, Ramez, was dead before the echoes of the gunshot that killed him stopped ringing. His 4-year-old daughter, Zeynab, watched him fall on a narrow street in Damascus, but she never heard the shot because she is deaf. She held onto his lifeless...
Tags: Islam, Religion and Belief, Saudi Arabia, Petroleum Industry, International Military Interventions
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'Timmy Failure' feeds Stephan Pastis' success
The last time "Pearls Before Swine" cartoonist Stephan Pastis walked the halls of San Marino's K.L. Carver Elementary School, he was an 11-year-old, practical-joke-loving fifth-grader with a penchant for irreverent doodling — things like the Ty-D-...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Cartoons, Students, Crime, Law and Justice, Diary of a Wimpy Kid (movie)
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One Goal, And No Quit
The Hartford CourantGrowing up in Columbus, Ga., home of Fort Benning, Kimberly Smithwick knew better than to hang around with soldiers at bars. "I never thought I'd date a military guy, but then I met Joe," she said, laughing. There was something different about Staff...Tags: Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), September 11, 2001 Attacks, High School Sports, Authors, Bristol (Hartford, Connecticut)
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The Vietnam syndrome
Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn...
Tags: Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Vietnam War (1955-1975), Kabul (Afghanistan), David Petraeus, Central Intelligence Agency
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Widow of "American Sniper" speaks at NRA convention
HOUSTON -- The widow of slain former military sniper Chris Kyle made a surprise appearance at the annual National Rifle Assn. convention on Friday, addressing a packed auditorium of hundreds. Taya Kyle, 38, a slim figure with long brown hair, appeared...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , U.S. Military, Criminals, Sarah Palin
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Veterans Administration Secretary Faults Delays In Processing Claims
The Hartford CourantKevin Burke walked into the veterans hospital about 18 months ago with advanced diabetes and kidney and liver disease. A subsequent mental health screening revealed that the 51-year-old Navy veteran is also an alcoholic and suffers from post-traumatic...Tags: Liver Disease, Electronics, Eric Shinseki, Rosa DeLauro, Veterans Affairs
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Valerie Sayers on Joe DiMaggio and "The Powers"
In "The Powers," Valerie Sayers' long-awaited sixth novel — her first since "Brain Fever" (1996) — the great Yankees slugger Joe DiMaggio is embarking on his historic hitting streak of 1941, riveting Americans as much as or more than the...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), The Washington Post, Roman Catholicism, New York Yankees, Labor Legislation
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'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars
In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...Tags: National Security, David Petraeus, Fidel Castro, Barack Obama, Afghanistan
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Iraqi team learns O.C. criminal procedures
WESTMINSTER — A burgeoning relationship between a small Christian college in Costa Mesa and a public university in Iraq could help shape the Middle Eastern country's response to gender-based violence in its northern region. Over the span of 15...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice, Abusive Behavior, Minority Groups, Laws
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READER SUBMITTED: Middlesex Community College Veterans' Club Raised $1500 For A Memorial Tree For A Fallen Hero
Middletown/ShorelineThe MxCC Veterans' Club, for the past three semesters, have been having hot dog sale fundraisers on campus to raise money so they could sponsor a Memorial Tree for one of the 64 men and women who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting the war on...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, Connecticut College, Human Interest
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