Author: storiesinamerica

The Washington Post Magazine ran a lengthy piece in yesterday’s magazine about the pro-war Hart family, whose son John wasn’t provided the proper armor to avoid major injuries and in this case, death. This should be...

First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse to deply to Iraq with his “Stryker Brigade” later this month, held a press conference on June 7 in which he stated his reasons for speaking...

The story about 21-year-old Suzanne Swift, the female soldier who was arrested in Eugene, Oregon for refusing to return to Iraq, is now getting a lot of attention. On Monday, Suzanne’s mother, Sara Rich, told OR Public...

Here’s another outcome of the war that gets little to no attention. Think about it. Tens of thousands of men are serving their second or third years in Iraq. They haven’t had sex in a very long time and are most...

Since 1997, the number of women in prison has increased by a whopping 757 percent. Women are the fastest growing segment of the prison system, surpassing men in all 50 states. Over the past 15 years, the number of women...