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Refusing to Fight
"Today, this area has again become a haven for a few American soldiers fleeing the US war in Iraq."
By Reina Gonzales
Depression After Combat
"I can tell you that things have drastically changed on how I see the world, and how I see America as a whole."
By Abbie Pickett
Family Ties and Iraq
"In Iraq, I knew where I was, I knew what I was doing. In Afghanistan, I knew where I was, I knew what I was doing."
By Richard Denny
Benefits for Military Marriage
"My fiancée kept assuring me that people in his training group were doing the same thing and that it was like tacitly smiled on by their supervisors."
By Sophie Simon-Ortiz
Headed Back
"It’s kind of a mixed emotions because I know they’re sad but I’m happy to be going over there because I love the job and I love what I do."
By Daniel Price (December 13 on NPR's Morning Edition)
Living with PTSD
"It’s like you’re watching a black and white TV; you’re just not there."
By Jesus Bocanegra (November 23 on NPR's All Things Considered)
The Rise of a Soldier
"A player’s score, or 'after action report,' depends on things like leadership, stealth, and honor."
By Trevor Garner (August 27 on Public Radio International's Weekend America & November 18 on Georgia Public Radio)
Finding Truth in the War
"The mission kept changing. It went from this is a war, to this is a peace keeping mission, to okay, we're just going to establish democracy."
By Nicole Goodwin (August 20 on KPFA)
Coming Back Home
"I gave myself a year to keep my medals and awards hanging up on the wall."
By Kevin Walters (April 5 on KPFA)
Love and War
"I’d say that the last time that you're going to see the person you love right before you leave, I think that was the hardest."
By Christian and Mary McArthur (April 5 on NPR's Morning Edition & March 19 on KPFA)
Life of a Soldier
"The Iraq deployment basically caught us all by surprise because we didn’t know what to expect."
By Brandon Coles (March 19 on KPFA)
U.S. Soldiers' Perspectives on Iraq Elections
"Sometimes violence is the price you have to pay, to move forward, to be progressive, to change things."
By Kevin Walters and Nicole Goodwin (January 27 on NPR)
Military Voices
"Money can’t buy what you understand, how you feel, and what you see, how all of that changes when you go on a tour in Iraq."
By Irie Reyes (December 27 on NPR)
Soldier Reflections
"I eventually went to the army and now I'm back on hometown recruit and I hope to recruit as many youth as possible."
By Terrance Harris (October 23 on KPFA)
Assistant Chaplain
"That's the life you have in the aftermath, and that's something you have to learn how to live with it, after you've been through war."
By Ivan Medina (October 16 on KPFA)
Wounded in Battle
"I had a hole in my left leg about a foot long and bout five inches wide on both sides of my calf."
By Carl’s Covington (June 26 on KPFA)
Soldiers React to the Prison Abuse
"I’m not saying I approve of it, but I understand the conditions that led up to them doing it."
By Belia Mayeno (May 17 on NPR's Morning Edition)
Return to Oakland
"I feel more safe over in Iraq because I had ammunition and my flight vest and Kevlar."
By Charles Handy (May 15 on KPFA)
The Story of a Wounded Soldier
"I fought in a foreign war, was injured in battle and survived and made it back home."
By Chris Kotch (April 6 on NPR)
A Soldier's Reflection
"I was in Iraq for just three months, but I got used to that state of being."
By Gaurav Taneja (February 2 on NPR)
Snapshots from Andrews Air Force Base
First stop
for injured GIs returning to the United States is Andrews
Air Force Base in suburban Maryland. Listen to this audio
postcard of soldiers and their nurses, as they begin the process
of healing and reflecting on what it means to be injured and
a war veteran. (April 19 on Democracy Now!)
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