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The War Horse
“Quietly Heroic”—Journalist Returns to Ukraine with American Veterans to Help Her People
Just before the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, Iryna Solomko, at age eight, was a citizen of the Soviet Union.She spoke one language: Russian.But in 1991, she and her family, who lived just outside Kyiv, became Ukrainian. Solomko began to learn…
We Didn’t Just Fold a Flag. We Delivered the Gratitude of a Nation to Our Hero.
“Relax … we’re just folding a flag.”Mooch spoke quietly over my shoulder to calm what was obviously becoming another loss of concentration, another moment, given the matter at hand. But we were not just folding a flag.We finished…
As Troops Face Mounting Demands to Serve in Crises, Civilian Employers Are Firing Them
When Navy reservist and hospital corpsman Linda Jones didn’t get the promotion she hoped for at her civilian health care job, she turned to her manager to ask what she could have done better. She was surprised when he told her she was a…
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