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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convergence of patriotism and economics in rural America. Their parents are proud but also worried that their child could be next. At home, TVs blare incessantly. Parents stay awake at night hoping for reassuring phone calls from the front. They get headaches. They cry, they hug, they pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home Front: War's Real Cost | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...Walsh argued that demonstrations against the war at home are damaging to troop morale on the front line. "To speak for peace, everyone supports it. To pray for peace, everyone supports it," Walsh said. "But there's something about demonstrating when they're out there fighting that seems like we don't support them...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: City Stops Short of Urging End to Demonstrations | 2/13/1991 | See Source »

...hope of spreading their message to as many onlookers as possible, Harrison, a five-year member of the religious group's Cambridge Meeting, and a dozen others pray for peace while handing out leaflets, as they have been doing for more than a month...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: Local Quakers Continue Peace Vigils | 2/13/1991 | See Source »

...inevitable bad news hits. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney warned, "A military operation of this intensity and complexity cannot be scored every evening like a college track meet or a basketball game." What other choice do we have but to tot up the bombing sorties, mourn the downed flyers and pray for the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Dove Faces Up to War | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...pray this will be over soon," he says. "I don't think the Kuwaiti people can stand...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: War Strikes Close to Home for Kuwaiti Student | 1/23/1991 | See Source »

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