Commentary
When Mothers Leave Home
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As America begins a full-scale war, thousands of active-duty soldiers and reservists are streaming onto foreign battlefields–and a record number of those combatants are not just women, but mothers.
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As America begins a full-scale war, thousands of active-duty soldiers and reservists are streaming onto foreign battlefields–and a record number of those combatants are not just women, but mothers.
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