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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: War

About that war

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2012, 12:27 PM Sep 28, 2012
12

We pause from our usual Friday activities (pretty much a combination of staring out the window and staring at the clock) to announce that there’s still a war in Afghanistan going on.

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Chris Stevens up close

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 12, 2012, 12:28 PM Sep 12, 2012
7

Chances are, most of us couldn’t name Chris Stevens as the ambassador to Libya before he was killed overnight.

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The lessons of 1862

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 17, 2012, 1:54 PM Aug 17, 2012

As Minnesota stopped this week to observe the 150th anniversary of the Dakota Conflict, it’s not a bad time to ask what parallels may/may not exist in 2012?

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Meanwhile, in Afghanistan…

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 15, 2012, 1:43 PM Aug 15, 2012

There’s a war going on, but you wouldn’t know it by the presidential campaign.

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Vets and auto anxiety

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 9, 2012, 11:23 AM Aug 9, 2012

It’s a sad story today that highlights the effects of PTSD on returning war veterans, but it also raises a question that might not be popular to ask: Should vets with PTSD be allowed to drive?

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D-Day plus 68

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 6, 2012, 11:13 AM Jun 6, 2012
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It won’t be long before there’s no one left to tell the story, firsthand. But today is not that day.

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A new honor for a Medal of Honor recipient

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 17, 2012, 11:13 AM May 17, 2012

Veterans in Park Rapids are about to right a wrong for a deceased Medal of Honor recipient.

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The faces of war

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 11, 2012, 12:25 PM May 11, 2012
8

There are many pictures, the composition of which we’ve seen so many times, one would expect it would lose its effective. This is the exception.

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The weapon of rape 20 years later

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 3, 2012, 2:27 PM Apr 3, 2012
2

Twenty years ago tomorrow, the war in Bosnia started with the siege in Sarajevo.

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A hero’s ‘noncombat’ death

Eric Ringham March 29, 2012, 11:27 AM Mar 29, 2012
4

Guardsman dies saving a little girl in Afghanistan.

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Troops in the landfill

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2012, 2:47 PM Feb 28, 2012
1

An investigation into why the remains of some war dead was met mostly with a shrug today until someone determined that the unidentified remains of victims of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon were sent there, too.

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After ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ a kiss is just a kiss

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 27, 2012, 11:27 AM Feb 27, 2012
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So far, the only area of the military that seems to be affected by the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is the homecoming.

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Should Hmong vets be allowed burial in U.S. cemeteries?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 15, 2012, 3:26 PM Feb 15, 2012
6

The Legislature might be about to wade into an emotional issue, if it takes up a resolution aimed at Congress and President Obama.

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War

The picture in the wallet

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 2, 2012, 3:06 PM Feb 2, 2012
5

I don’t think there will ever be a day when I unfold this picture and fail to stare at these faces for a long, long time.

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Atrocity or media bias?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 23, 2012, 1:37 PM Jan 23, 2012
2

If a Marine makes a plea deal to cut short a trial on charges he killed innocent people in Iraq, has he been exonerated?

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