This page lists KPCC news and talk show stories related to the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq.
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KPCC News
Iraq Veteran Puts Wartime Experience Into Music
03/20/2007
Steven Cuevas
Since the war in Iraq began four years ago, the Marine Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms has sent thousands of young leathernecks into battle. One of them is telling his stories with a guitar and a mic.
AirTalk
Women in the Military
03/20/2007
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Over 160,000 women are currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a result, the number of women soldiers killed or injured, mentally or physically, from military service is higher than ever before. Larry Mantle talks with Lory Manning of the Women's Research and Education Institute, General Janis Karpinski, author of One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story (Miramax Books), and Calli Wight, counselor in the women's healthcare center for the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, about the experiences of American women in war today, and the challenges they face.
KPCC News
Wounded Vet's Mother Struggles with Son's Paralysis
03/19/2007
Susan Valot
More than 23,000 American soldiers have been wounded since the war in Iraq began four years ago. KPCC's Susan Valot spoke to the mother of one of those soldiers.
Patt Morrison
Iraq and "the Surge"--is it working?
03/19/2007
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21,000 additional American troops are occupying Baghdad, in the hopes of securing that city. This is part of the White House escalation of the war announced over a month ago. Nobody suggested that this move would cause a turnaround by now, but are there at least signs that it is working? And if there are, how much longer will it be before life can return to some semblance of normalcy? Patt talks to journalists and military officers to try and decipher what's happening on the ground as we enter the fifth year of the Iraq war.
AirTalk
Iraq War Vets And Military Families Call In
03/19/2007
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Larry Mantle takes calls from the families of military personnel who are currently stationed in Iraq and from vets who have served in the Iraq war.
Off-Ramp
Remembering the Dead
03/17/2007
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This week marks the fourth anniversary of the start of war in Iraq, and Off-Ramp remembers a few of the Southland's soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
Patt Morrison
The Long Road Home
03/16/2007
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Martha Raddatz, Chief White House correspondent for ABC News, has spent the last four years covering the war in Iraq. In her first book, The Long Road Home (Putnam Adult), Raddatz traces the intertwining stories of soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas and their families through the first battle of the Iraqi insurgency in Sadr City. She covers the fighting on the ground while painting an intimate portrait of the families at home waiting for word about their soldiers.
- Martha Raddatz, Author, The Long Road Home (Putnam Adult). She is also the Chief White House correspondent for ABC News and has been covering the Iraq War for the last four years. She has gone back and forth to Iraq 12 times.
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