An animated explainer narrated by James Fallows. ... Through the decade after  World War II, when so many American families had at ... but there are many more  of them than serve in all branches of the military. ... of 1 percent, served in Iraq or  Afghanistan at any point in the post-9/11 years, many of them more than once.
November 23, 2015 ... In 1958, when the American National Election Study first  asked this question, 73% said they could ... And in 2001, the 9/11 terror attacks  on the United States ... In early October 2001, a month after the attacks, 60% said  they could trust ... Amid the war in Iraq and economic uncertainty at home, trust in  ...
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the  invasion of Iraq by a ... An estimated 151,000 to 600,000 or more Iraqis were  killed in the first three to ... The U.S. formally withdrew all combat troops from Iraq  by December 2011. ... following 9/11 to become one of the most unpopular  presidents in U.S. ...
Oct 21, 2011 ... Bush Declares Start of Iraq War; Missile Said to Be Aimed at ... Saddam Hussein,  once the all-powerful leader of Iraq, is arrested ... former headquarters of the  United States occupation for the first time. ... months after Saddam Hussein's  removal from power, the American ... Jim Wilson/The New York Times ...
RS phase (from 2015): Resolute Support · United States · Italy · Germany ·  Georgia · Turkey .... The War in Afghanistan is the second longest war in United  States history, .... By November 1994, the Taliban had captured all of Kandahar  Province. ...... U.S. troops in Afghanistan outnumbered those in Iraq for the first  time since ...
After 9/11, Jim put us all first by serving for 23 months in Iraq, the war’s longest tour.