Now he doesn't care whether anyone hears him play or not.

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She says she wants to tell him personally that she's offended whenever she hears him say that the mission in Iraq should be continued in part to honor the fallen.

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She still calls Giuliani a friend, but bristles at much of what she hears from him on abortion lately.

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From noises that inspire primal fear to fascination, what he hears never fails to surprise and intrigue him.

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He's going to keep practicing until he's proud of what he hears, he says, and I tell him I might like to write about him for the L.A. Times.

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Still, Shay says what strikes him is how familiar their struggles seem: When these Iraq vets speak, he hears echoes of the same loss and anger that have wounded generations of soldiers, all the way back to ancient Greece.

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