<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Home Front</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/specials/homefront?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</link><description>Home Front</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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59314-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 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[World Bank-IMF Protests Set This Week]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48197-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48197-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Opponents of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund announced yesterday that they would stage two days of protests to coincide with annual meetings the two institutions will host beginning Friday.]]></description><author> Paul Schwartzman</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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26708-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19952-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 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[Norfolk Soldier Remembered for his Vigor, Generosity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17395-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17395-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ No matter what he was doing, Lee Arthur Lewis Jr.'s goal was always to help people.]]></description><author> Lila de Tantillo</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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13092-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 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[Not Found on Postcards]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3677-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3677-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Closed streets, Jersey barriers and heavily armed guards have become as much a part of the Washington experience as the Lincoln Memorial.]]></description><author> Paul Schwartzman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foes of War in Iraq Rally for Teach-In]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64840-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64840-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Forty years ago, the first anti-Vietnam War teach-in was held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, triggering an educational campaign nationwide that some credited with helping end the war.]]></description><author> Allan Lengel</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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64656-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64266-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60714-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 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[Bonds of Brotherhood, Pierced by War]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57850-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57850-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Close siblings took different paths: one played ball, the other enlisted.]]></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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54792-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 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[Capt. Humayun Khan, 27]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55140-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55140-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The soldier, who grew up in Silver Spring, was killed June 9 in Baqubah, Iraq. He is among 70 area troops who have died in the Iraq war. He was with the 201st Forward Support Battalion, 1st Infantry Division.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GU Activists Go Hungry To Help Janitors]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52340-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52340-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Inside a white bubble tent, in the heart of Georgetown University, Diane Foglizzo, a brown-haired, strong-willed senior, is on the sixth day of her hunger strike. She said she's lost 10 pounds on a meager diet of water and orange juice. Another student activist, weakened by hunger, was rushed to the hospital Saturday.]]></description><author> Sudarsan Raghavan</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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52368-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50450-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48569-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 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[Medic Who Twice Dodged Death Is Buried]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38578-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38578-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Not everyone in Iraq is the enemy, Cpl. Stephen Michael McGowan used to say. Especially the kids. But his bright words were little consolation to his mother, Bobbie, who cradled the American flag that had draped his coffin at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday, stroked it against her cheek and, with eyes closed, gently kissed it.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jackson's Political Drive Comes to Md.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32264-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32264-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/homefront</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:44:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson brought his campaign to renew the federal Voting Rights Act to a Prince George's County church with an appeal for help gathering a million signatures on a petition to President Bush.]]></description><author> Hamil R. Harris</author></item></channel></rss>
