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War Stories

A Post 50 Mom Reflects On Her Years As A Parent

Sheila Blanchette | Posted 05.21.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Parenting, Working Mothers, Blogging, Teenagers, Parenthood, War Stories, Motherhood, Parenting post50, Fifty News
Sheila Blanchette

There are a lot of blogs on the Internet these days about parenting. Many of them come at motherhood or fatherhood from the angle of, am I a good parent? They are funny, honest and self-deprecating. I wish they had been around when I was raising kids but one thing I did have were good friends.

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Rear Echelon Writers

Doug Bradley | Posted 04.24.2013 | Books
Read More: Iraq War, War Stories, Humor and Satire, Vietnam War, Veterans, Books News
Doug Bradley

What I most appreciate about Fobbit is the dark, gallows humor that by and large only soldiers can truly appreciate.

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Iraq Veteran Reveals His Favorite Soldier Stories

| Posted 12.14.2011 | Books
Read More: Soldier Stories, Iraq Soldier Stories, Book News, War Stories, For Whom the Bell Tolls, War Books, Band of Brothers, Iraq Books, Soldier Books, Catch-22, Iraq Stories, Books News

By Paul Rieckhoff for Bookish As the last American troops come home from Iraq, Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America,...

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My Father's Silent War

Laura Harrington | Posted 01.09.2012 | Women
Read More: Father-Daughter Relationships, Germany, War Stories, Posttraumatic Stress, Veterans Day, Laura Harrington, World War II, Air Force, Ptsd, Women News
Laura Harrington

A gut-wrenching truth that any soldier will tell you is that you can't talk about it. The minute you make it a story, you've started to lie; you have to choose a point of view, embellish, or leave things out.

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Karl Marlantes: My Top 10 War Stories

The Guardian | Karl Marlantes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: War Stories, Karl Marlantes, The Naked and the Dead, War Poetry, All Quiet on the Western Front, Leo Tolstoy, The Red Badge of Courage, Steven Crane, War and Peace, War Novels, The Iliad, Materhorn, Books News

"It seems to me that a great war book must speak the truth about war; that it is mostly tedious, numbing, confusing, occasionally thrilling, filled wi...

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Get Your War On: The Cross (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Video, Get Your War On, Prison Camp, Gop, Get Your War on Episode 6, John McCain, Cross, The Cross, War Stories, Pow, Get Your War on 6, John McCain War Hero, Sarah Palin, GYWO: The Cross, Gywo 6, Vietnam, Funny Videos, David Rees, McCains Cross, Get Your War on the Cross, Torture, Comedy News

Let's just say Senator POW's "cross" story just got funnier... ...

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