I spent four years of my life at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point on the North Carolina coast. North Carolina is home to some of the country’s largest military bases and ranks third in the United States for active-duty military population. America has been involved in two major wars since 2003 and thousands of […]
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Asheville-based National Guard unit prepares for war in Iraq
The tiny circles of family, friends and uniformed men and women that dotted the Trinity Baptist Church fellowship hall formed around the surge of emotion that comes with saying goodbye to loved ones headed off to war.
Marking the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war
An audio slideshow of an Asheville vigil
War-injured Iraqi child to visit Asheville
Ten-year-old Salee Allawe lost both legs to a U.S. air strike in Iraq in November of 2006.