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July 05, 2003

Anger Rises for Families of US Troops in Iraq

t r u t h o u t - Anger Rises for Families of US Troops in Iraq
By Jeffrey Gettleman
The New York Times

Excerpt:

"I want my husband home," Ms. Leija, a mother of three children, said. "I am so on edge. When they first left, I thought yeah, this will be bad, but war is what they trained for. But they are not fighting a war. They are not doing what they trained for. They have become police in a place they're not welcome."

Military families, so often the ones to put a cheery face on war, are growing vocal. ...

Frustrations became so bad recently at Fort Stewart, Ga., that a colonel, meeting with 800 seething spouses, most of them wives, had to be escorted from the session.

"They were crying, cussing, yelling and screaming for their men to come back," said Lucia Braxton, director of community services at Fort Stewart.

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