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This Year in "Supporting Our Troops" (Open Thread)

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How did we do Americans? Let's assess how we supported our troops this year.

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Republicans like to express the importance of supporting the troops. Well, with another year in the Iraq war, just how did America do for its honorable men and women serving this year?

Here are some stories to get us started. Please add more kindle (news stories) to the fire after I am done igniting the flame with my own stories.

 

Supporting Our Troops IN REVIEW

 

The Forgotten Families http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501828.html

 

Feb 22- Walter Reed Ex Patient http://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/22/walter_reed_ex_patient_wife_speak

 

March 1- It is Just Not Walter Reed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030401394.html

 

Major New Problems at Walter Reed http://www.wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=56746

 

EXTEND TOURS OF DUTY (APRIL)

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=3027796

 

Health Care Putting Troops at Risk

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,134577,00.html

 

Words from the Front Lines

http://www.traveling-soldier.org/9.06.words.php

 

Kevin Gosztola is a writer and curator of Firedoglake's blog The Dissenter, a blog covering civil liberties in the age of technology. He is an editor for OpEdNews.com and a former intern and videographer for The Nation Magazine.And, he's the (more...)
 

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