Newsweek article about Iraq War marriages

[Imua 0]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/43354/page/1

IRAQ

Love and War

What's striking about this conflict is not that Americans and Iraqis have met on the battlefield and fallen in love and married. It's that so few have. In their stories lies the sad, tortured tale of the war itself.

In Baghdad in May 2003, amid the chaos, fear and hope (it is easy to forget how much hope there was in those early weeks when Americans and Iraqis began meeting face to face after years of tyranny and war), Jimmy and Lena were among the first to fall in love. He was a career officer in the U.S. Army—Capt. James Michael Ahearn from Concord, Calif., winner of two Bronze Stars, veteran of tours in Korea, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. She was from a middle-class Baghdad family that had seen better days. Lena Ghadeer, her divorced mother, her brother and four sisters were struggling to keep up appearances when American soldiers dragged Saddam's statue off its pedestal and turned their world upside down....

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[MrsAmera 41]

Wow what a well written story. I was in tears at the end. My husband has been offered several jobs in Iraq none of which we accepted although with paychecks upwards of $250,000 a year dangled in front of us it was tempting. I couldn't do that to my babies!

[sandinista! 1,816]

because of the danger aspect or the wretched immoral traitor aspect?

[MrsAmera 41]

LOL both I guess.