On the front line in Afghanistan
Tribune reports on Illinois National Guard units at war.
July 30, 2009
Not everyone comes home
JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- The four-Humvee convoy bounced down the mountain road, one Afghan village blending into another on a routine mission for Delta Company of the Illinois National Guard. The troops were scouting for the best location to build a school.
March 24, 2009
The town's all here
The long trip home from a devastating suicide blast in Afghanistan has felt like a dream for Spec. Daniel Acosta Jr., but none of it so much as his arrival Monday in Chicago.
May 25, 2009
Town's streets serve as a military roll call
The soldiers' names were first nailed to Sullivan's lampposts in 2004, not long after the town watched a seemingly swift victory in Afghanistan on TV and before the bloodshed in Iraq demanded more and more troops.
February 27, 2009
Soldier's words haunting in death
One of two Illinois Guardsmen killed this week by a roadside bomb in Kandahar sat down and wrote a letter to friends New Year's Eve, revealing a sense of growing danger for Americans in Afghanistan and a building appreciation for their role in the war-torn country.
November 12, 2008
LETTER FROM PUL-I-CHARKHI
Prison refrain: I wasn't Taliban, but I am now
PUL-I-CHARKHI, Afghanistan — Like prisoners everywhere, Payanda Muhammad says he is innocent. No way did he have anything to do with the Taliban or blowing up a sugar factory in Baghlan province last year, killing as many as 72 people, including five members of parliament and more than 50 children.
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