Word: apartness
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...speak not only of our American peers, who have made the ultimate sacrifice in their military service, but also of Iraqi peers who had far less choice concerning when and how American bombs and sectarian strife would wrench their lives, families, and futures apart. By some estimates, of the hundreds of thousands Iraqis killed in the conflict, a disproportionate number were youth. This is to say nothing of the millions more who have lost much hope for a stable, educated future as they were forced to flee into hasty exile...
...will be far from over. Our nation will have staggered several trillion dollars more into debt. Hundreds of thousands of veterans will grapple for the rest of their lives with critical mental health issues brought on by sustained exposure to violence. Millions of Iraqi lives will have been ripped apart, socially and financially. The authority of the United Nations and multilateral institutions to increase international peace, so painstakingly built up by the blood and hopes of our grandparents, will have been severely weakened...
Transients often move in, steal the power, tear apart the walls and floorboards in search of valuable copper wires and piping and set fires to cook drugs or keep warm. The police struggle to keep the damage under control; but with no owner around to claim a trespass violation on a repossessed home, it's difficult for them to make arrests. All they can do is tell the squatters to leave, board up the house and ship off a note to the bank that now owns the property. "It's a victimless crime," says Bert Lippert, a bit sarcastically...
...even during the time my unit has been in this area, we have seen things get better. We have seen people come back to jobs. Things have gotten much more secure. But I think everybody else realizes that it's so very tenuous. Things could fall apart so quickly...
...Living Apart From His Family I had a family - I have a wife and three kids - two daughters and one son, he is the youngest. I had to ask them to leave the country because I was worried about them, honestly. I was worried myself too, because I am in this line of business. Not just this line of business, I mean, in Iraq, you don't know when you're going to be killed: a car bomb, an accident, all these kinds of things, the militias...