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Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Mar 13, 2008
I've heard it increasingly from service members home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It usually takes a few days for it to hit them. And then it does. Hard. The military may be at war, but the rest of the …
Also tagged: iraq, statistics
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Feb 22, 2008
I was chomping on a chicken bake in the Costco food court a few days ago when I spotted a man, sitting a table over, wearing one of those dark ball caps with the yellow lettering and pattern of ribbons that indicated …
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Dec 18, 2007
McClatchy Newspapers military columnist Joe Galloway writes this week,"The next smarmy politician who shouts, 'God bless our troops' ought to be tarred and feathered and ridden out of Washington on a rail for sheer …
Also tagged: afghanistan, iraq
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Nov 14, 2007
I've always been skeptical of the stories of Vietnam War veterans who claim to have been spit on, say they had rotten fruit thrown at them, or profess to have been violently attacked upon their return from the war. I'm …
Also tagged: iraq, coming home
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Oct 10, 2007
I'd been meaning for quite some time to make it over to the Salt Lake City Library's monthly lecture on World War II. I like the model of this speaker's series, because its not academics or historians speaking about …
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Oct 8, 2007
With Ken Burns' most recent documentary, The War, fresh in a lot of minds, it seems now is a good time to encourage veterans of World War II -- and all the nation's past wars -- to share their stories. To that end …