Eastern Kentucky soldier killed in Afghanistan
KEN HART, CNHI News Service
May 09, 2008 11:52 am
A soldier from Greenup County has been killed in Afghanistan. (more) >>>

On Mother's Day, like every day, moms just pray troops stay safe
By Vicky Holland, The Midwest City and Del City Sun (Midwest City, Okla.)
May 08, 2008 01:01 pm
Soldiers serving stateside and overseas have no way of knowing just how much their moms will miss them this Mother's Day. (more) >>>

Walking with the King in Saddam’s palace
BY COL. MIKE GALLAGHER, THE TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT (Johnstown, Pa.)
April 25, 2008 08:46 am
I see General Petraeus nearly every day during the presentation of the MNF-I (Multi-National Force-Iraq) Battlefield Update Assessment. I sit in the row in front of him, but I doubt he has noticed me, with the possible exception of the time I dashed to the head in the middle of the brief. (more) >>>

Longtime WWII buddies reunite in Barton visit
By Maria Smith, CUMBERLAND TIMES-NEWS (CUMBERLAND, Md.)
April 28, 2008 12:53 am
The U.S. Army’s 7th Armored Division was located there and Althuizen began talking to the soldiers, who eventually asked him to join their unit.
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Exhibit honors fallen soldiers in Iraq
By Crystal Bozek, THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE (NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.)
April 24, 2008 10:40 am
"I've been really disheartened that people aren't talking about this war anymore. They talk more about the price of gasoline than that people are dying." (more) >>>

Letter from Iraq: On high alert for trip outside the wire
BY MIKE GALLAGHER, THE TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT (Johnstown, Pa.)
April 11, 2008 01:21 pm
From Iraq: Adrenaline and anxiety help me concentrate on our surroundings. So does the clacking from the turret, as the gunner regularly rotates from side to side. (more) >>>

'History has a funny way of repeating itself'
By Greg Laffitte, THE VALDOSTA DAILY TIMES (VALDOSTA, Ga.)
April 08, 2008 09:22 am
Letters from Afghanistan: Airman shares life in war (more) >>>

Community says goodbye to fallen son
By Robert Barron, ENID NEWS AND EAGLE (ENID, Okla.)
April 02, 2008 11:39 pm
Army Staff Sgt. Chris Hake is remembered. “We walk freer, the Iraqi people walk freer, the world is freer because of men like Chris." (more) >>>

President praises amputee back in combat
By Sommer Woodward, PRYOR DAILY TIMES (PRYOR, Okla.)
March 27, 2008 10:11 am
A Pryor Marine returned for duty in Iraq after losing a leg in the war. (more) >>>

Enid soldier killed in Iraq
By Robert Barron, ENID NEWS AND EAGLE (ENID, Okla.)
March 24, 2008 09:39 pm
Army Staff Sgt. Chris Hake, who graduated from Oklahoma Bible Academy in Enid, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. (more) >>>