Word: tracey
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...Artagnan Beets, 3, is in the corner, dueling with his dad. He's thumping him with big red inflatable sock-'em boppers, squealing every time he lands a good blow. Corporal Tracey Beets is pretty skilled at protecting himself--quick eyes, good moves, bulging arms under a NO GUTS, NO GLORY tattoo--but this is one fight he's happy to lose, because defeat comes with a hug, and there's not time for many more...
...this?" Then she looks at him and answers her own question. "He's a really good man, and it means so much to him." When he was 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...
...devastating," Anna says of the prospect of deployment, "because once they get over there, it takes so long to hear from them." Like many other wives left behind, she thought about going home to her family while Tracey is away. But she is grateful for what the Army offers to families: the health care, classes and play groups. "I want the kids to have some kind of normal life," she says. "If I changed his environment," she says of 3-year-old D'Artagnan, "he might not think Daddy is coming back." His father was away for a month last...
...When Tracey was in the National Guard, he served in the honor guard at Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island, N.Y. He would hand the folded flag to the widows of the Korean War and Vietnam vets who are starting to fill that graveyard. "If something happens to him," Anna says, "I don't want the flag. Let them give it to his mother. If you can't give me my husband back, you can keep your flag...
...industry that's still struggling with computers." Indeed, high-tech gimmickry is exceedingly thin on the ground at Waste Expo; four lonely exhibitors huddle forlornly in the "Technology Pavilion," fully half a mile from the main entrance and conveniently adjacent to the "Medical Waste Pavilion." Tracey Anderson of CFA, which markets a computer program to track truck-fleet maintenance, bravely tries to spin her booth's isolation: "It's almost a blessing in disguise, because the people coming back here are really looking...