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For the War's Wounded Troops and Families, Elmo Can Help
By David Wood - Politics DailyHow can you gently explain to a 4-year-old that Daddy has been killed in Afghanistan and will never come home? How does a combat-wounded Marine convince his scared young son that he's still the same loving Dad, even though his thighs now end in stumps? How does a family cope with their returned soldier who looks the same, but whose traumatic brain injury from a near-miss IED slurs her speech and dims her memory and sometimes wracks her with unreasoning spasms of hot fury? How does a family celebrate Christmas while a loved one is hundreds of miles away in a military hospital ward? War ...
Afghanistan and the Elections: What You Need to Know
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe Basics - A little more than half of Americans now say they oppose the war in Afghanistan, and a plurality say the U.S. is losing the war. - The Obama administration plans a broad review of the war strategy and its progress in December, and the president has promised to begin pulling troops in July 2011. - Barely a quarter of Americans say the U.S. should stay with the current plan. - Attempts in Congress to mandate troop withdrawals from Afghanistan have failed. The Background Cost: $304 billion as of July, rising at a rate of $5.7 billion a month Casualties: U.S. battle dead: 1,201, as ...
U.S. Casualties in Afghan War Soar Toward 15,000 Dead and Injured
By David Wood - Politics DailyAmericans have their eyes on the rising death toll of U.S. military men and women in Afghanistan, now nearing 1,000. But the casualty toll from that eight-year-old war also includes the less visible, silent ranks of those wounded and evacuated for injuries, a number that has reached at least 13,775 mostly young Americans. In many cases, their wounds will impose a lifelong burden on them and their families. Altogether, the human cost of the Afghan war has reached 14,381 dead and wounded as of Monday morning, and senior U.S. officers have warned that because of the growing number of troops in ...
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