Dec 01 Watch What I’ll tell my son about fighting in the Iraq war By PBS News Hour Phil Klay, a veteran and author of the National Book Award-winning book “Redeployment,” explains the difficulty for service members trying figuring out what to say to family about their experience and role in fighting a war. Continue watching
May 25 Watch 5:53 Are strained relations with Iraq hurting the fight against Islamic State? By PBS News Hour On Sunday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter blamed Iraqi soldiers for losing the key city of Ramadi to the Islamic State group. Iraqi leaders condemned the comments and a top Iranian commander charged that the U.S. is the one that lacks… Continue watching
May 24 Navy veteran skydives with soldiers in support of the military’s burn victims By Carey Reed Ryan "Birdman" Parrott, a 32-year-old Navy veteran, has skydived with soldiers from every U.S. war since World War II to raise awareness for his foundation Sons of the Flag, which benefits the military's burn victims. On Monday, he'll be leading… Continue reading
May 17 Iraq War judged a mistake by White House hopefuls By Connie Cass, Associated Press A dozen years later, American politics has reached a rough consensus about the Iraq War: It was a mistake. Continue reading
May 07 Emma Sky’s remarkable rise in Iraq, in a virtually all-male sea of military men By Margaret Warner British Middle East scholar Emma Sky was an early opponent of the Iraq invasion but nonetheless volunteered to work for the U.S. and British-led Coalition Provisional Authority to stand up a post-Saddam government. She took clothes for 3 months --… Continue reading
May 07 Watch 3:24 Author Emma Sky on the fateful mistakes made after the Iraq invasion By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 04 NBC’s Brian Williams apologizes for false Iraq war story By Joshua Barajas Brian Williams recanted on Wednesday a 12-year-old story that he was aboard a helicopter that was shot down by enemy fire during the Iraq War invasion in 2003. Continue reading
May 15 Vietnam War reenactors go full metal in the woods of Oregon By Victoria Fleischer Deep in the woods of western Oregon, a group of men trudges through mud and rain, wearing full army fatigues and using slang not overheard since the Nixon administration. The men are reenacting the Vietnam War and award-winning filmmakers Mike… Continue reading