Posts Tagged ‘Memorial Day’
On Memorial Day
May 31st, 2010 • Headlines, World
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On Memorial Day, U.S. soldiers in Iraq contemplate ‘forgotten war’. Inside the ornate palace of the late dictator Saddam Hussein, now the main headquarters of U.S. forces in Iraq, dozens of U.S. service members bowed their heads in prayer at a Memorial Day commemoration.
They thought about their families waiting for them to come home. They thought about the fallen comrades lost in the past seven years of occupation and war. They thought about what would come next. Read more »