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As taps echoes across the cookie-cutter housing areas of upstate New York’s Fort Drum, the wives turn on the evening news, both hoping for and dreading word of their husbands overseas. It’s a ritual played out on military bases across the nation as the waiting wives of Karen Houppert’s... read more

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First Sentence

I WENT THROUGH A WHOLE DAY NOT KNOWING MY HUSBAND HAD been shot, 26-year-old Lauren Fidell says.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Karen Houppert (Author)
 

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