<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Homefront: Families</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/specials/homefront/families?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><description>Homefront: Families</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Treating Family Wounds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59314-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59314-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nonprofit group Our Military Kids in McLean  is offering to help pay for athletics, tutoring and dance lessons for children of deployed troops.]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marine  From Va. Killed In Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26708-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26708-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Tibetan immigrant who came to the United States with his family more than a decade ago and later joined the U.S. Marine Corps was killed in Iraq over the weekend, military officials and relatives said yesterday.]]></description><author> Tara Young</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honoring a Woman Who Returned to Serve]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19952-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19952-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Barbara C. Heald, who volunteered three times to go to Iraq to help in the country's rebuilding, qualified for the interment ceremony she received at Arlington National Cemetery Friday twice over.]]></description><author> Rosalind S. Helderman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctor of N.Va. Terror Suspect to Look for Signs of Torture]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13092-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13092-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An American student charged in a conspiracy to kill President Bush can have his own doctor examine him for evidence that he was tortured while in Saudi custody, a federal judge in Alexandria ruled yesterday.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer Rising, Even If Many Eschew the Pews]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64656-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64656-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   "Let us pray."<br> On Sunday, millions more churchgoers than usual will hear those words thanks to Easter, a holiday that traditionally inspires infrequent worshipers to join the faithful in the nation's pews. As a church-going child, I prayed for Easter's arrival  --  not because of the...]]></description><author> Donna Britt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Town Grieves Over a Favorite Son]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64266-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64266-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Marine Cpl. Jonathan Bowling came home from Iraq, the entire town closed down to grieve.]]></description><author> Carol Morello</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Lesson in Acceptance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60714-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60714-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em>Fourth of five articles</em><br>They met through Springbrook High School's Catholic Club when Thomas Doerflinger was a sophomore. During one of the club's first meetings, the students got into a rambling discussion about the meaning of time, and Thomas Tobin, a popular English teacher who...]]></description><author> Christian Davenport</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking for Logic Amid The Pain]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54792-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54792-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Khizr Khan is a lawyer by training, an articulate man, a careful and methodical thinker who is trying to make sense of the fact that his 27-year-old son is gone forever.]]></description><author> Stephanie McCrummen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Marine's Choice, A Mother's Conflict]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52368-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52368-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<br><em>First of five articles</em><br>The memory remains vivid in Tracy Miller's mind: She is stepping carefully over the guys sprawled out on her living room floor, doing her best not to wake them as she heads toward the door.]]></description><author> Christian Davenport</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion and Criticism Mark Arlington Protest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50450-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50450-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was not a combustible affair. No thundering battle cries through megaphones to tens of thousands of people. No police officers clad in riot gear, or wall of city buses serving as a barricade.]]></description><author> Ian Shapira</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small N.Y. Town Buries a Favorite Son at Arlington]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48569-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48569-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On Feb. 15, Army Pfc. Michael Anthony Arciola, 20, of Elmsford, N.Y., was shot and killed by insurgents in Al Ramadi, Iraq.]]></description><author> Lila de Tantillo</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Mother Lobbies to Get One Son Back]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8525-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8525-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When all three of Ann Swann's sons were deployed to Iraq, she wrote President Bush to ask that at least one be sent home.]]></description><author> Avis Thomas-Lester</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Students Accomplish Change in Law]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1507-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1507-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The caller dialing the tiny Washington-based human rights group was desperate.]]></description><author> Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Town Embraces Its Heroes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48533-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48533-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WEST POINT, Va., Feb. 23 -- The armory here, nearly bursting with the joy and impromptu jigs of soldiers being welcomed home from Iraq, fell suddenly silent Wednesday as two families, their faces tear-streaked, stood to accept plaques for two who did not come home, victims of a mess-tent bombing in December.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Man Charged in Plot]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43940-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43940-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, is accused of plotting to assassinate President Bush and trying to establish an al Qaeda cell in the United States.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon and Dana Priest</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Young Adventurer's Final Journey]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24449-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24449-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After 27 years and countless adventures, Army Sgt. Stephen Sherman returned yesterday to the place of his birth, Arlington, and was laid to rest.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woodbridge Soldier Killed in Baghdad]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21558-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21558-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Once he turned 18, Kristopher L. Shepherd quickly made two decisions that would shape the rest of his short life.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Offers Judge Secret Evidence To Decide Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17498-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17498-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The U.S. government asked a judge yesterday to dismiss a Falls Church couple's challenge of their son's imprisonment based on reasons and evidence that would be kept secret from the family and the public.]]></description><author> Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virginia Marine Kept 'Fighting Good Fight']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9501-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9501-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As dozens of grief-stricken family members and friends looked on, a Marine sharpshooter killed in Iraq was laid to rest yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Widows of War Speak Out for Benefits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3639-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3639-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/families</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 8:43:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Edith Smith, in a neat yellow suit and the yellow pleated cap of Gold Star Wives of America Inc., glanced one more time at her speech, took a slight breath, then spoke into the microphone to members of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.]]></description><author> Avis Thomas-Lester</author></item></channel></rss>