Mine-resistant, cliff vulnerable
(Blog Post)
For what soon will be a full year, the Illinois National Guard has made no small contribution to the war in Afghanistan. The deployment in the summer of 2008 interrupted the lives of some 2,700 citizen soldiers, their families and their towns in the largest call-up of Illinois Guard troops since World War II.
The mission – costly in both lives and resources -- now nears an end. In its final weeks, Tribune reporter James Janega and Tribune ...
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