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Publisher correction: Tuesday, December 02, 2003
In "The Hearts Left Behind" (Nov. 17) we should have said that Laura Kinslow's guard unit, the 88th Troop Command, has not been deployed or activated at this point, although some individual members were deployed to fill shortages in other units. _____________________
Byline: Jerry Adler
What should you put in a letter to your spouse serving in Iraq? The conventional wisdom, says Janet Mooney of South Charleston, W.Va., is "to put a shiny face on everything we tell them, so the guys feel better--but I don't believe in that." Mooney's theory is that soldiers like her husband, Patrick, a West Virginia state trooper whose National Guard unit called him up in February, "want to feel like they're a part of what's happening here." So along with accounts of their daughter Caitlin's 10th birthday, Janet felt she had to inform Pat about the death of her father and of Pat's grandmother, about the clothes dryer's catching fire and the trip to Cape Cod on which she lost her wedding ring. That way, she says, her husband "feels like he's still included" in the family life he left so abruptly--and...
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