Many of you know that my son was deployed to Iraq as a member of the Delaware Army National Guard.

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In fact, it was very special indeed: rich with political symbolism and, for one father in Ohio, a precious memento of a son killed in Iraq.

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As the mother of a son who is currently in Iraq, is that good news for you?

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He described watching a father, also a retired Marine, stroking the hand of a son who came back from Iraq in a coma.

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They regard the denial of Ali's alleged right to succeed the prophet on his death, his subsequent murder, and the martyrdom of his son Hussein at Karbala (in present-day Iraq) later as seminal events.

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President Saddam Hussein named his younger son, Qusay, as one of the two Baath Party figures with operational control over Iraq's armed forces.

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The trouble is that Mr Johnson is the only member of Congress with a son who has served in Afghanistan and is likely to go to Iraq.

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Although Muhammad al-Hakim, its leader (and the son of a well-known grand ayatollah), claims to have a significant guerrilla network inside Iraq, last week's events show he cannot capitalise on Shia unrest.

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The year my son Beau was deployed to Iraq with the Delaware Army National Guard, my family learned how much simple acts of kindness could lift our spirits.

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