SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is joining a growing list of states restricting demonstrations near funerals in response to nationwide protests at services for soldiers killed in Iraq.
Gov. Jon Huntsman signed H.B. 205 into law yesterday. The new law prohibits protests within 200 feet, an hour before or after a funeral or memorial service.
The law’s [...]

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The time is finally here, but there’s still so much to do.
Pick up watermelon. Buy red roses. Make welcome-home banners.
The days before families welcome back soldiers are hectic but filled with anticipation and excitement.
Nearly 200 soldiers of the 950th Maintenance Company, an Army Reserve unit, are returning home today from a yearlong tour in Iraq, [...]

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If the Dayton Coffee Shop was a flower garden, it would be blooming with photographs, and owner Donna Freels has a corner patch where she wants to see new pictures sprout.
From the hundreds of snapshots spread beneath glass tabletops–photos of patrons, current and former, living and dead–to the framed 8-by-10 prints of customer’s children and [...]

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SOLDIERS who fought alongside a young corporal killed in Iraq have hailed him as “among the best of his generation”.
Paul Joszko, 28, of B (Rorke’s Drift) Company, the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh died with two soldiers from the Black Watch in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The expectant father was weeks away from returning home [...]

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CBS News) EAST CHICAGO, Ind. The dusty roads of Baghdad don’t have much in common with the sterile halls of St. Catherine’s Hospital in East Chicago, Ind. But the damage done on the Iraqi streets makes its way here, to the office of Dr. Glen Wurglitz.
Wurglitz has treated returning troops for symptoms of post-traumatic [...]

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The hard-line regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has been frightening neighbors with its meddling in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza. The regime’s apparent pursuit of nuclear weapons has also prompted unusual solidarity among the United States, Europe, and Russia; together they have been ratcheting up UN Security Council sanctions on Iran, demanding that it [...]

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BENTONVILLE — Before May 11, 2005, it was Cpl. Aaron Mankin’s job to tell the story of Marines at the front lines in the Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On May 11, 2005, Mankin became the story. He was severely injured when the 26-ton truck he was riding in was catapulted 10 feet in the air by a [...]

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By ERIKA M. TORRES
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
TUSTIN – Sixteen soldiers in the 2nd platoon, Unit 73711 received "In-N-Out Burger" paper hats and stickers after children at the non-denominational church Healing World International decided to do something to show appreciation for soldiers in Iraq.
Lauree Godwin, a church member, recently spoke to the children about a co-worker’s son [...]

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The Ministry of Defence has apologised after it invited a man to join the Army nine months after he was killed in Basra.
Reservist medic Lance Corporal Dennis Brady, 37, was killed after a mortar attack in Basra in October 2006.
But last month his mother, Brenda Brady, of Barrow-in-Furnish-, Cumbria, received a letter asking him to [...]

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has approved an Army recommendation for a seven-fold increase in production of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles to protect soldiers from makeshift bombs in Iraq.
The decision late last week to build as many as 17,770 MRAPs for the Army comes after Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the vehicle the Pentagon’s top [...]

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