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Saving Pvt. Hafterson: A mother’s story

Bob Collins September 30, 2009, 3:22 PM Sep 30, 2009

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A mother tries to save her Marine son from himself and the military

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Political support softening for continued war in Afghanistan

Bob Collins September 22, 2009, 2:32 PM Sep 22, 2009

A Pew Research survey shows the problem U.S. military leaders in Afghanistan have selling a escalation of the war there to the American people.

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One Picture: ‘I’d give it all up to have my son back.’

Bob Collins September 17, 2009, 4:10 PM Sep 17, 2009

A mother and father get their son’s medal.

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The call from Duluth

Bob Collins September 15, 2009, 11:22 AM Sep 15, 2009

A phone call from Duluth led a New York family to believe their son was dead. He wasn’t.

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2,996

Bob Collins September 10, 2009, 4:36 PM Sep 10, 2009

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It’s getting harder to memorialize the people who died on September 11.

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What’s the story?

Bob Collins September 9, 2009, 9:49 AM Sep 9, 2009

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The same story yields different stories.

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On heroes

Bob Collins September 6, 2009, 8:00 AM Sep 6, 2009

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A Massachusetts man will be only the sixth person to receive the Medal of Honor since the September 11th attacks.

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Iraqi Bundles of Love

Bob Collins August 28, 2009, 2:03 PM Aug 28, 2009

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A soldier’s call to leave something useful behind in Iraq gets answered by quilters.

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Sanitizing war

Bob Collins July 20, 2009, 2:11 PM Jul 20, 2009

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Now that the Obama administration is allowing photographing the homecomings of war dead, journalists have taken to sanitizing it.

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Pawlenty in Iraq

Bob Collins July 20, 2009, 11:51 AM Jul 20, 2009

Gubernatorial fashion in the war zone.

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The boys of Somalia

Bob Collins July 13, 2009, 5:08 PM Jul 13, 2009

With every answer, come more questions about the disappearance of Minnesota Somali men.

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Who’s in charge?

Bob Collins July 11, 2009, 7:04 PM Jul 11, 2009

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If there’s one story that’s yet to strike a significant nerve with folks outside of Washington, it’s the revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency had a secret counterterrorism program that it didn’t tell Congress about.

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The nature of terrorists

Bob Collins July 9, 2009, 8:04 PM Jul 9, 2009

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Two terrorism stories in the news. Both are branded terrorists but the evidence isn’t clear because the cases never went to trial.

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One picture

Bob Collins June 12, 2009, 6:35 AM Jun 12, 2009

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It’s been a long, long time since we’ve seen such a compelling picture.

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Memorial Day: Dorothy and Quentin Lundquist

Bob Collins May 25, 2009, 9:12 PM May 25, 2009

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My paternal grandparents, Dorothy (nee Anderson, 1Lt) and Quentin Eric Lundquist (Tsgt) both served during WWII, and were married before returning to the U.S. My grandfather was an orderly and my grandmother was a nurse. There was one story in particular where a patient had shimmied up a drainpipe and my grandfather had gone up Read more →

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Saving Pvt. Hafterson: A mother’s story

Political support softening for continued war in Afghanistan

One Picture: ‘I’d give it all up to have my son back.’

The call from Duluth

2,996

What’s the story?

On heroes

Iraqi Bundles of Love

Sanitizing war

Pawlenty in Iraq

The boys of Somalia

Who’s in charge?

The nature of terrorists

One picture

Memorial Day: Dorothy and Quentin Lundquist