Word: stewart
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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...
...seeking to re-enlist, the Army offered more options than the Marines, especially to an older soldier. "In the Marine Corps," Tracey notes, "the philosophy is, if they want you to have a family, they'll issue you one." So now this family finds itself at Fort Stewart, about to be ripped in half...
...just some of the nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers now moving out from across the country to join the 60,000 already in the gulf. You can track the exodus in numbers. It's harder to track it in lives, unless you come to a place like Fort Stewart and watch a community melt away...
...Fort Stewart sits on 280,000 acres of piney woods and swampy fields in the sweet-onion patch of coastal Georgia. This is as regular as regular Army gets: no frills, no illusions, lots of buildings that look as if they were meant to be temporary back in 1941. It's cold this week at Camp Swampy, down in the 20s in the morning as the last-minute training picks up and the clock ticks down for the company commanders. They must make sure that every soldier is qualified to handle his weapon, meaning he can snap-shoot a quarter...
Even his mom has to smile. These men in her life, large and small, love her, but they love the Army too, and that's just what she will have to live with, as the long winter unwinds. --With reporting by Mike Billips/Fort Stewart...