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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Burden of war

Burden of war
Small, poor U.S. towns bear the brunt of those killed in Iraq. Raised in the projects in an old steel town, Edward "Willie" Carman saw the Army as a chance to build a new life. "I'm not doing it to you, I'm doing it for me," the then-18-year-old told his mother, Joanna Hawthorne, after coming home from high school one day and surprising her with the news.

 



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