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Almost 900 U.S. Kids Have Lost a Parent to Iraq War, Scripps Finds

Monday December 20, 2004
America's sons and daughters fight her wars. In Iraq, however, an unprecedented number of those sons and daughters are also moms and dads. Now the Scripps Howard News Service reports that almost 900 U.S. children have lost at least one parent to the Iraq war. Will the U.S. government be there for the children of its own fallen heroes? Read more...

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