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		<title>ONE YEAR LATER:  Closing the Book,  Questions Unanswered</title>
		<link>http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/one-year-later-closing-the-book-questions-unanswered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marthagillis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year has passed since  Brian was killed.    How is that possible?  Remembering that day, hearing the news, the anguish is still fresh.  Yet so much has happened.  Life has indeed gone on. His unit is safely home from Afghanistan now.  That changed things emotionally for me.  Mixed with the deep relief for them was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=touchedbythewar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9857032&amp;post=1675&amp;subd=touchedbythewar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LEGAL, CRUEL, AND DANGEROUS</title>
		<link>http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/legal-and-cruel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marthagillis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, just 20 years old,  was killed in Iraq on March 3, 2006, while serving his country.  On March 10, 2006,  his grieving family and friends were emotionally assaulted by some people calling themselves Christians, who used Matthew&#8217;s funeral as an occasion to garner  publicity for themselves and their homophobic vitriol.  They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=touchedbythewar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9857032&amp;post=1661&amp;subd=touchedbythewar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LEGACIES</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marthagillis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[martha gillis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military service]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/?p=1265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I returned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC in military-speak) to teach my once-a-year class earlier this month.  It was the first time I&#8217;d been there since Brian&#8217;s death.  I didn&#8217;t realize how emotional an experience it would be until I had cleared security and was heading towards the main hospital.  Suddenly surrounded by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=touchedbythewar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9857032&amp;post=1265&amp;subd=touchedbythewar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THANK YOU, PATRICK KENNEDY??</title>
		<link>http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/thank-you-patrick-kennedy/</link>
		<comments>http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/thank-you-patrick-kennedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marthagillis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media coverage of war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal thoughts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/?p=1629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although it was nearly incoherent, I initially appreciated Representative Patrick Kennedy&#8217;s speech to his Congressional colleagues about the lack of media coverage of Congress&#8217; actions on the war.    I especially appreciated the obvious depth of his feelings about it.  In a &#8220;town&#8221; (Washington) where political correctness reaches absurd proportions and both genuineness and honesty is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=touchedbythewar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9857032&amp;post=1629&amp;subd=touchedbythewar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PAINFUL MILESTONE</title>
		<link>http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/painful-milestone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marthagillis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a year since Brian&#8217;s parents said good-bye to him in Alaska prior to his being deployed to Afghanistan.  His  fellow soldiers are beginning to rotate home.  That makes it vivid again that he ISN&#8217;T &#8220;coming home.&#8221;  And the family will no longer have the pleasure/distraction of sending &#8220;care packages&#8221; to the rest of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=touchedbythewar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9857032&amp;post=1615&amp;subd=touchedbythewar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;LL CRY IF I WANT TO</title>
		<link>http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/ill-cry-if-i-want-to-2/</link>
		<comments>http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/ill-cry-if-i-want-to-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marthagillis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/?p=1597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I understand why the author of the blog entry I quoted from last week feels the need to offer civilians guidance on how to respond to her inability to be &#8220;cool&#8221; when her loved one is in combat or is wounded, but I think the problem is bigger than military vs civilian.  There is something in our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=touchedbythewar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9857032&amp;post=1597&amp;subd=touchedbythewar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IN HER OWN WORDS</title>
		<link>http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/ill-cry-if-i-want-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marthagillis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/?p=1581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  I have referred readers to The Sandbox milblog before, but this excerpt, written by a military wife, deserves special notice.  For the full post go to http://gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox/.  The post was dated 1/13/10 and titled FOR CIVILIANS.   I think that dealing with military families dealing with casualties has to be the hardest thing for a civilian to do. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=touchedbythewar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9857032&amp;post=1581&amp;subd=touchedbythewar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SCENES FROM AFGHANISTAN</title>
		<link>http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/scenes-from-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/scenes-from-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marthagillis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo essay]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/?p=1401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  The tragic events in Haiti have pushed war news aside in the media.  However, the war doesn&#8217;t stop just because there is a crisis elsewhere.   War goes on.  Life goes on.  Ready or not. Here are a few photographs of scenes in Afghanistan to help stay connected with the lives and people involved there, too.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=touchedbythewar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9857032&amp;post=1401&amp;subd=touchedbythewar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PERSPECTIVE</title>
		<link>http://touchedbythewar.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/doubt-vs-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marthagillis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grieving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Many of the victims of Haiti&#8217;s earthquake will disappear into mass graves and their families will never know what happened.  They will inevitably wonder:  Did they suffer?  Could I have done something?  Why couldn&#8217;t  rescue teams have gotten there sooner?   What if&#8230;?  What if&#8230;? For those whose loved ones were in Haiti by choice rather than by birth, sleepless [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=touchedbythewar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9857032&amp;post=1544&amp;subd=touchedbythewar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CONNECTIONS OF THE HEART/ACTS OF WILL</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The priest who officiated at Brian&#8217;s funeral lost a family member in the earthquake in Haiti.  His niece , Molly Hightower, was there  helping out at an orphanage when the earthquake struck.  The man who offered my family comfort in June now needs comfort himself.  Even without direct connections to like this to the the human tragedy and suffering in Haiti, they cry out for compassion and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=touchedbythewar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9857032&amp;post=1522&amp;subd=touchedbythewar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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