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People
and Places:
Military Matters
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Lindsey Rowland
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Remembering
two fallen soldiers
Two weeks after a tragic helicopter crash in Mosul,
Iraq killed 17 people, Assistant Dean of Military Programs at
HPU, Ralph Gallogly, learned that one of his students had died
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Deployment:
unwanted break
Some students take time off from school to save
money, to have more time to play, or to figure out what they
really want to do with their lives if school just isn’t
fulfilling their needs. Others interrupt school because they
have to, because they have no other choice. These students
aren’t absent from classes because they are sitting on
the beach or because they have increased family responsibilities;
they are absent because they have been deployed.
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Iraq may seem like a world away, the newspaper
a flash of a world we don’t know, have never known, and
will never know. The news is of a country in turmoil, a country
incomprehensible or incomparable to anything we have ever experienced.
It’s not that we are unpatriotic or even unsupportive.
It’s just that the war seems so surreal. |
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Letters from
Baghdad
You may have seen the news reports of two suicide
bombs going off in the Green Zone. It was just one suicide
bomb and one bomb that was planted. By our standards they were
small bombs.
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Tour
length unhealthy for family soldier
I remember Oct. 7, 9 a.m. It was surreal at the
time, but now it is my reality. The white bus pulled up, and
I knew it was time. My heart started beating fast, and my palms
were sweaty. Tears welled up, and I didn’t want to let
go. He kissed me, turned his back, and walked away. I held
his hand through the window for a few minutes before the bus
drove off. And just like that, my fiancé was headed
for Iraq, which will be his new home for at least a year.
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