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...guarded, so families huddled close to eat what they had caught or picked. Somewhere in there may lie the origins of the dinner table. When food was abundant enough to share, it was passed around mostly at celebrations--harvest festivals, when the foods of autumn were eaten; Easter feasts, when the spring lamb recalled both Jesus' sacrifice and the story of Passover. "The foods became the anchor to which the rituals connected," says Brenton. "You don't see the same foods at a wedding as at a funeral as at a naming ceremony...
Halliburton and its subsidiary KBR are targets in the political battle at home, but their drivers, men culled from the ranks of the desperate from Texas to New Hampshire, are taking real fire on the ground. Easter-week attacks on KBR's fuel convoys left four dead, bringing the company's death toll to 35, the majority of them drivers. Two drivers remain missing. Another, Thomas Hamill, escaped from his Iraqi captors and returned home to a hero's welcome. Hundreds more drivers have quit early and come back...
Halliburton, which provides counseling in Iraq and vacation leaves every four months, says fewer than 1% of its 24,000 employees have asked to come home. After the Easter attacks, CEO Dave Lesar visited 1,200 workers in Kuwait, but by then scores of drivers had asked to come home. Heering is now working with his father-in-law in construction. His past-due bills are paid, but there's nothing for college. Although he is angry and anxious, Heering hasn't called about counseling. Come fall, he plans to vote for George Bush, but he has harsh words...
...state has the third highest rate of deployed National Guard members and reserves in the country. One reserve unit, the 94th Military Police Company, has been deployed overseas on active duty for 2 1/2 of the past four years. The reservists were finally scheduled to come home on Easter weekend, but their tour was extended three months. "To make matters worse," Collins says, "they literally were on a bus on their way to the plane that was going to take them back to the U.S." when orders came to turn around and return to their base camp. "This war feels...
...digress. (My apologies.) Here’s the deal: there is no such thing as the “general public.” It’s a fiction, a fatuous farce, as much as the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But just because these things don’t exist doesn’t mean that they aren’t incredibly powerful rallying points. Santa Claus almost single-handedly incites massive consumerist frenzies during the holiday season. Likewise, polls and their “general public” do as much...