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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Death in Afghanistan: Ben Sklaver's Story | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...died, four other Americans were also killed in the nearly medieval land that has exposed the folly of empires for centuries. At the final moment of his young and accomplished life - when he stood talking to a village leader in Murcheh - he wore the colors of a country nobly represented by an all-volunteer Army; he fought on behalf of a dangerously self-absorbed people back home and the politicians who represent them, many of whom are unable to see beyond the next election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Death in Afghanistan: Ben Sklaver's Story | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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