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There are more than 115,000 Americans whose sacrifices in the war on terrorism are often forgotten: the children whose parents have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Those kids are gaining a voice--and a break--through Operation Purple, a privately funded program of 26 sleep-away camps in 22 states where art therapy, open discussion and old-fashioned summer fun ease the trauma of having a soldier parent deployed. Kuuipo Ordway, who oversees behavioral health at the camps--free for 8-to-18-year-olds who have a parent deployed--says they need outlets. "They're angry...
...parents of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold have often been portrayed as disengaged from the lives of their sons and unaware of the dark paths lying ahead. But 936 pages of evidence taken from the killers' homes and cars were released by the Jefferson County Sheriff's office on Thursday, and a notebook kept by Eric's father, Wayne, details a parent's involvement in his child's downward spiral. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. They then killed themselves...
...stenographer's notebook bears the label "Eric." It begins with Wayne Harris making notes about another parent's accusations that Eric has thrown snowballs, damaged a classmate's car, plotted against a friend's house, and was involved with alcohol. The father - or mother, the notebook's handwriting varies - writes, "Talked to Eric. 1. Snowball angry..." There are cryptic references to "Yelling, yanking on car door, being little bully...pushes, yelling...
...point, the father records that his son would like to talk to an accuser face to face, "with an adult present." There's a notation that the father has called another parent, left a message, and hasn't received a return phone call. The pages of the notebook are filled with comments that seem to have been made during phone calls and conversations, and they reveal snapshots of trouble...
Full-blown childhood crises may forge even stronger lifelong links. The death of a parent blows some families to bits. But when older sibs step in to help raise younger ones, the dual role of contemporary and caretaker can lay the foundation for an indestructible closeness later on. Wayne Duvall, 48, a television and film actor in New York City and the youngest of three brothers, was just 13 when his father died. His older brothers, who had let him get away with all manner of mischief when both parents were in residence, intuitively knew that the family no longer...