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Military Kids: Absent Parents and Crumbling Schools

by on July 7, 2011 - 0 Comments
Section: Investigations, The Wire, War

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Feb. 6, 2007) - Stacie Gazonas, NFL Pro Bowl cheerleader for the San Diego Chargers, leads a group of military children through a cheerleading routine at Quick Field on board Naval Station Pearl Harbor. Gazonas and other cheerleaders provided a free youth cheerleading clinic for military children and their families while in Hawaii for the 2007 NFL Pro Bowl. The Pro Bowl will be played for the 28th consecutive year at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class James E. Foehl [WikiMedia Commons]

Catie Hunter is only 11 years old. Her father, an Army platoon sergeant, has spent five of those years away from her, serving his country in Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. At her elementary school on an Oklahoma military post, ceiling tiles are removed so that when a Great Plains storm rumbles in, rain can cascade from the rotting roof into large trash cans underneath. To get to class, Catie must dodge what she calls “Niagara Falls.”

Iraq Missing Persons Report: VIDEO

by on July 6, 2011 - 0 Comments
Section: The Wire, War

A cloud of smoke and dust envelopes U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Michael Mullahy seconds after he fired an AT-4 rocket launcher at an insurgent position during a firefight in Baghdad's Adhamiyah neighborhood June 16 which ended with one insurgent dead and three captured. Mullahy is a squad leader with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment. photo: Sergeant Michael Pryor (Wikimedia Commons)

This agreement is between the ICMP, the Ministry of Human Rights, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs and the Martyrs Foundation and relates to a specific three-year project that will investigate specific mass graves and surviving populations that can likely be linked to those graves.