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Silenced too soon

Michael and me at Camp Striker near the Baghdad airport in September 2005. Michael Hastings died Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles. The news hit me hard. He was 33. He was a great journalist. He...

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‘When we were good men’

Noor, in a happy moment, at the school for disabled kids she attends in Baghdad. March, 2013 As a reporter, I have numerous conversations every day with people I don’t know that well or at all. Once in...

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Every day is Memorial Day

John Alderman, who was captain of Mike’s cavalry troop in Iraq, at the grave Thursday. Thursday evening, I drove out to Loganville, Georgia. I suppose it’s not a tremendous distance from downtown...

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Iraq’s forgotten tragedy

I met Ahmad in 2007 in Nineveh province. I think about him and all the people I met over the years in Iraq and wonder what their lives are like today. I just read an excerpt from Peter Baker’s new...

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Memorial Day is not National BBQ Day

  Arlington National Cemetery. Occasionally, I pick up my iPhone and am pleasantly surprised to see an incoming call from a soldier I met in Iraq. The other night, it was Mike Brown, who helped train...

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Remembering Ramadi as Iraq suffers again

Ramadi looked apocalyptic when the Sunni insurgency raged there in 2006. I fought off tears as I read Sunday’s New York Times. The news from Iraq was horrifying. A vicious civil war seems imminent as...

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A Romeo and Juliet love story from Iraq

Mike and me in Baghdad in April, 2006. He believed in love. I wonder if he still does. I met Mike when sectarian strife exploded in Baghdad in 2006. That was not his real name, of course, but it was...

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Rembering Blacksheep on Veterans Day

  Here’s to you, Blacksheep — 3rd platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment. Thinking of that hot day in April, 2006, when you completed your last patrol. I was with you in the...

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Farewell, Sgt. Denny

Denny and me in southwest Baghdad. March 2006. Curtis Compton took this photo. I first met the boys of Charlie Company, 1/121 Infantry, in December 2005. I was an embedded reporter, a lost soul among...

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If you throw your hat into the air in Ramadi, it will come down with 12...

I often wonder what happened to all the people I met in Ramadi. (Photo by Louie Favorite) My heart breaks every time I read news from Iraq. So much so that I find myself clicking away or turning off...

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Stop the politics today — and remember

Spc. John Figueroa of the 30th Infantry Regiment patrols Arab Jabour, southeast of Baghdad in 2008. Fig, as he was known, had seen the worst of #war and shared his thoughts with me for “Chaplain...

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