Covering (up) the home front in our back yard? (Updated)

Reader Ray Van Dune writes from Seattle:

On Saturday March 24, National Public Radio, correspondent John McChesney, who was until recently embedded with the Minnesota National Guard in Iraq, told us about his 700-mile trip through Minnesota, interviewing families who have loved ones serving in Iraq:

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