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...walls around him tell the story of how he got here to this second-floor apartment in a wooded subdivision at the Army's Fort Stewart, near Hinesville, Ga. There's the framed letter from New York Governor George Pataki, thanking the former Marine for his service as a National Guardsman on Sept. 11, which consisted mainly of preventing distraught fire fighters and cops from rushing in to try to find their lost comrades. There are letters from the White House and the Pentagon, responding to his campaign last year to be allowed back on active duty, which, since...
...much work--take a 'Let them work it out after we're dead' approach," say Joanna Reiver, an estate attorney in Wilmington, Del. Since there's an emotional value to family belongings that supersedes money, that can be a serious mistake. Jerry Wolf, an attorney in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., recalls a case of his in which two siblings fought over their mother's jewelry. "The legal fees topped $70,000 for something that was worth less than half that amount," he says...
...explanation of David's inner life one can hope to. One clever chapter is narrated by Gorilla Watson, an "Adventures of Superman" bad guy who David refers to repeatedly. Gorilla explains that while everything outside David's head is splintered, "Inside it's as tidy and rich as Fort Knox." At the end, in a sad twist the final panel shows Gorilla behind bars with David, calling him, "the best roommate a fella could want." This sort of visual editorial is what separates comix memoir from prose. But while Paul Karasik does a nice enough job of relating his brother...
...TELL THAT WAR is drawing close is to visit an army town. In Hinesville, Ga.--adjacent to Fort Stewart, home of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division--the barbershop outside the base's main gate has started trimming women's hair because the number of $5 buzz cuts favored by G.I.s has dropped 70%. By the time the entire division is shipped out to Kuwait, the town's population will have shrunk by a third...
Some of those soldiers will come from Fort Hood, Texas, where President Bush last week rallied 4,000 members of the largest army base in the U.S. "The leader in Iraq has publicly proclaimed his hatred for our country and what we stand for," Bush told the troops. They roared approving "Hoo-ahs!" when he said they might be called on to fight...