<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Homefront: Military</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/specials/homefront/military?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><description>Homefront: Military</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/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59314-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 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[The Life Recovery Room]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30279-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30279-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Kitchen therapy is seldom much of a tough sell. In contrast to the one-on-one nature of other rehabilitation, it provides an irreverent group camaraderie that is itself therapeutic.]]></description><author> Susan Levine</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Military Won't Allow Speech by Md. Delegate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54869-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54869-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Military authorities will not allow Del. Anthony G. Brown (D-Prince George's), an Army reservist serving in Iraq, to give a videotaped address to the Maryland House of Delegates on Monday, according to W. Minor Carter, an Annapolis lawyer-lobbyist who has been in touch with Brown.]]></description><author> Cameron W. Barr</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cost Draws Wrath, but Not From Charities]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12487-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12487-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As troops fight in Iraq and relief workers scurry to aid tsunami survivors in Asia, some believe the inaugural festivities are an unseemly show of extravagance.]]></description><author> Carol Morello</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mich. Marine 'Wanted to Be There']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2351-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2351-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Michele Lehto left her 11-year-old son's side yesterday and, with her hand covering her mouth, walked alone toward her husband's coffin.]]></description><author> Michele Clock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veterans Urge D.C. Vote in House]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45651-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45651-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Three District veterans of the war in Iraq Monday appealed to Congress, saying they risked their lives to bring democracy to Baghdad only to return home without a vote in America's capital.]]></description><author> Spencer S. Hsu</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amended Holiday Wishes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21062-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21062-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The war in Iraq remains intensely close for the half-dozen military families for whom Walter Reed Army Medical Center is home over the holidays.]]></description><author> Susan Levine</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Soldier's Death, Sikhs Find Pride]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35853-2004Dec4.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35853-2004Dec4.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A group of three dozen Sikh people from the area came yesterday morning to Arlington National Cemetery to honor the first U.S. soldier of the faith killed in Iraq.]]></description><author> Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Teacher Returns as a Soldier]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29750-2004Dec2.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29750-2004Dec2.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Felix Herrera, a former science and math teacher at Arlington's Kenmore Middle School,  received a warm welcome during a visit to his old school while on leave from Iraq.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldier Walks Down Aisle Buoyed by Love, Science]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48209-2004Nov13.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48209-2004Nov13.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Spec. Aaron Bugg had the muscles in his legs severed while in Iraq but Saturday he walked down the aisle with the woman he has loved since junior high.]]></description><author> Bill Broadway</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veterans Day With a Difference]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41096-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41096-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Eugene Simpson Jr. never paid much attention to Veterans Day before -- but then he watched a man in an alley in Tikrit, Iraq, set off an explosion that sent shrapnel into his spinal cord, shattering his right leg.]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Separated by War, Joined in Purpose]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32740-2004Nov7.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32740-2004Nov7.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Between them, husband and wife, there is nearly 7,000 miles, yet the Family Readiness Group remains active in counseling and watching over soldiers and their families through a time of war.]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing Past the Scars of Battle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57280-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57280-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[J.R. Martinez was horribly scarred fighting in Iraq but now he's using his injuries to reach out to others trying to recover.]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Boisterous' Soldier Buried at Arlington]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50068-2004Oct20.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50068-2004Oct20.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Staff Sgt. Darren J. Cunningham, a 22-year Army veteran who was described by friends and family as gregarious and fun-loving, was buried yesterday under gray skies at Arlington National Cemetery.]]></description><author> Christina A. Samuels</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[War's Wrenching Counterpoint to Quints' Arrival]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36804-2004Oct15.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36804-2004Oct15.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Wednesday morning when Marine Sgt. Joshua Horton was shown the videotape of his five newborn children, he reached from his hospital bed at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda and touched the TV screen.]]></description><author> Michael E. Ruane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[IMF, World Bank Policies Faulted in Hushed Vigils]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2948-2004Oct2.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2948-2004Oct2.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Protesters against global capitalism and the war in Iraq held twin demonstrations in Washington Saturday amid tight security.]]></description><author> Manny Fernandez  and Monte Reel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Va. Soldier Killed in Iraq,  Family Came First]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6985-2004Sep8.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6985-2004Sep8.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Sept. 8 -- He was the big brother who always had the right advice to give, who called to make sure his little brother was getting along all right and turning into a good man.]]></description><author> Chris L. Jenkins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Witness to Abuse Trying to Be Heard]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17135-2004Aug19.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17135-2004Aug19.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- In his 33 years, Ken Davis has had two big chances to change history. The first was 10 years ago in the District, when a man standing next to him started shooting at the White House. The second was last year in Iraq, when he saw naked Iraqi prisoners on the floor, screaming.]]></description><author> Elizabeth Williamson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[W.Va. Soldier Who Cheated Death Once Is Laid to Rest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6438-2004Aug16.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6438-2004Aug16.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MARTINSBURG, W.Va., Aug. 16 -- When lightning struck a tree near Sgt. Bobby E. Beasley at Fort A.P. Hill two summers ago, he was thrown about 20 feet but survived his brush with death.]]></description><author> Sarah Park</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up and Running Again]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54883-2004Aug10.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54883-2004Aug10.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront/military</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:34 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For many of the 6,113 soldiers wounded in the war on terrorism, Washington and its military hospitals are the first stop in the journey to the rest of their lives.]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer</author></item></channel></rss>