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...Wasserstein children, Pamela S. Wasserstein ’00, Ben C. Wasserstein ’03, and A. Scoop Wasserstein ’07 all contributed to The Crimson in their years at Harvard, and Ben C. Wasserstein ’03 edited Fifteen Minutes, The Crimson’s weekly magazine...
Last week, Laura and Gary Sklaver buried their oldest boy, Ben, who was 32 when killed by a suicide bomber in the remote village of Murcheh in the distant land of Afghanistan. Ben was a captain in the U.S. Army. Now he has become one of 804 Americans, 37 from Connecticut, to lose their lives in an expanding war that belongs mostly to the parents and families of those who serve a nation preoccupied by a wounded economy and political polarization...
...Ben Sklaver grew up drawn to service. He admired his grandfather, who served with George Patton's Army in World War II. He joined ROTC at Tufts, received a master's in international relations from the Fletcher School of Diplomacy, was commissioned as an officer in the Army Reserve in 2003 and became convinced that a world consumed with conflict and terrorism might be changed by Americans bringing clean water, medicine and food as much as by drones, missiles and military might. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' new offensive in Afghanistan...
...dangerous and divided world, Ben's principal weapon was idealism. In Uganda, he helped bring the simplest of things - clean drinking water and a bit of hope - to thousands who often saw sunrise as just one more dawn in a country where death can seem as common as drawing a breath. After his tour in Uganda ended, he came home seeking other ways to help those most in need...
...Ben had just started a new job with FEMA in New York when his unit was recalled," Gary Sklaver said. "They were supposed to go to Iraq, but then the strategy changed along with his orders, and they were sent to Afghanistan...