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early March 2012. His 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, was charged with engaging Taliban fighters in Kunar Province and mentoring Afghan government soldiers. Upon returning, here are some of his views.
• Coming home:
• "War and coming home are going to mean different things to each soldier. For me it was God and Family. I get my security in life from my hope in God, and my companionship and support from my family. I really didn't worry too much during deployment, because of that faith."
• Support for those serving:
• "For a lot of soldiers, it's the family back home that drives them. Support from family and friends is very important. Support is also important from the American public. Often times a simple thank you is enough."
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• RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- Two years after an itinerant Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire to protest government injustice and ignited uprisings across the Middle East, the three nations of the Maghreb -- the former French colonies of North Africa -- have taken vastly different paths. Tunisia has seen wholesale political change. In oil-rich Algeria, it's business as usual. Somewhere in the middle is Morocco, which has trumpeted what it describes as a third way of controlled change as a model for the region.
• These outcomes sum up much of the Middle East's disparate reactions to the Arab Spring -- and their success or failure may hold lessons for the whole region.
• Morocco and Algeria seem remarkably stable, despite the social tensions boiling beneath their calm facade. Resource-strapped Tunisia seems to have fared poorly, with a struggling economy and dire predictions of chaos. Yet it's also the country that has made the most progress toward a more open society.
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• HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The body of the man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school has been claimed for burial.
• Connecticut Medical Examiner Wayne H. Carver II tells the Hartford Courant

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