Troops

Revealing War on a Human Scale

By Robert Lewis• 21st Century Muckrakers• June 15, 2008

‘It became heroic, tragic, visceral, incomprehensible, beautiful and grotesque — in a word: human.’ Read more

Personal Tragedies Illuminate the Consequences of War

By Matthew Purdy• 21st Century Muckrakers• June 15, 2008

In investigating why some Iraq War veterans become homicidal, The New York Times highlighted a circumstance that no one else was tracking. Read more

Visual Testimony About War

By Peter van Agtmael• Visual Journalism• June 15, 2008

All photos by Peter van Agtmael.For the past two and a half years, I have covered war and its consequences in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the United States. As an American and a member of the generation fighting the … Read more

Probing the High Suicide Rate Among Soldiers in Iraq

By Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman• 21st Century Muckrakers• June 15, 2008

In pushing for the military to release undisclosed data, reporters found soldiers who battled mental illness and took their own lives during the war. Read more

Telling Stories the Military Doesn’t Want Told

By Dan Olmsted• June 15, 2004

If war is hell, then the aftermath for too many of those who fought the war in Iraq is worthy of another biblical metaphor—purgatory. Last fall, UPI’s Mark Benjamin got a call from the husband of a soldier who had … Read more