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John Edwards calls the media to task

By Molly Priesmeyer | 04.10.08 | 10:34 am

In an excellent letter to the editor of the New York Times, Sen. John Edwards calls the paper to task for failing to report on the real human impact of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He takes issue…

Counting the dead: Mapping the impact on Minnesota

By Dan Haugen | 03.27.08 | 7:44 am

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The number of U.S. military casualties in Iraq recently passed the 4,000 mark. According to the Web site icasualties.org, 59 of those soldiers have come from Minnesota. We’ve plotted data from icasualties.org onto a Google map…

Counting the dead: Minneapolis man marks war dead on garage memorial

By Dan Haugen | 03.26.08 | 4:15 pm

Jim Weber considers it a reminder, not a political statement. The 57-year-old Vietnam veteran and retired postal service worker started tallying U.S. military casualties in Iraq on a three-by-four whiteboard above his garage door in 2003. “At first, I…