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...names, an antidote to the memory of nameless nightly body counts. Since then the experts have chronicled America's "casualty aversion" through Lebanon, Somalia, Kosovo. The first President Bush was so concerned about maintaining public support during the Gulf War that shots of flag-draped coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base were banned. The Pentagon expected tens of thousands of casualties; 148 died. The blessing of a swift victory was its curse; so few soldiers perished that it left the impression that war had been made safe, childproofed by the high-tech, high-altitude, hands-free campaign. And that...
Overwhelmingly, grandparents say, the greatest benefit is getting to know their grandchildren better--and having their grandchildren know them. Phyllis Bierstedt, 68, of Wilmington, Del., took her 16-year-old granddaughter Calli Speakman of Dover, Del.--one of 11 grandkids--to France last summer on a Familyhostel tour. "Having her alone and learning and seeing together created a bond that didn't exist before," she says. "It was really a gift to me as well, because my husband died a year...
...knew when it might end. By Saturday, more than 50 incidents of foot-and-mouth in the U.K. had turned up-from Dover on the southeastern tip to Lockerbie in Scotland-and fresh cases were expected at the rate of six to 10 a day. The confirmation of a suspected case on a farm in south Armagh, Northern Ireland, just inside the border with the Republic of Ireland, raised fears that it had seeped beyond British borders; on Friday the Irish government dispatched army troops to the border to prevent animals from crossing the boundary. The threat of the plague...
...slaughterhouse about 170 km east, while others were bought by a farm in Herefordshire, some 200 km north, causing one more outbreak. Still another batch went 300 km northeast to a market in Northampton. Cleave packed a shipment of 348 sheep off to the British Channel port of Dover, where they were carried to Germany on a livestock ferry...
...There was a lot of shouting and screaming but nobody came to help." SU DI KE, Chinese survivor of the Dover truck tragedy, describing in court the hellish journey that claimed 58 lives...