Bob CollinsThere will be no media coverage when the bodies of 31 soldiers, killed in the helicopter crash in Afghanistan over the weekend, are returned to Dover Air Force Base.
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David CazaresA Blaine man who hijacked his neighbor’s Wi-fi and then made threats to Joe Biden and distributed child pornography using his victim’s identity has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. It’s just one more nasty incident — albeit a very small one — in the long war between forces of good and evil online. Read more →
Connie Scott, of Owatonna, Minn., would like the nation to be as proud of her son’s sacrifice for his country as her family is. She knows it’s not, however.
Politics and ‘ground zero’
Today’s performance before the bright lights by a White House national security adviser was an extraordinary briefing to behold.
A Midmorning caller, who says her sister died at the Pentagon on 9/11, called the program today to say the death of Osama bin Laden doesn’t provide the closure that the experts say it should be bringing to the families of 9/11 victims.
Death of a war photographer
A parental tribute to a gay soldier
You don’t see many images of returning dead soldiers these days, and it’s not because they’ve stopped coming.
It took a lot to get Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid on the same page. It took Frank Buckles dying.