Suck It Up, Nick Regarding "Bollea's Lawyers Fight His Isolation" (front page, June 3): ...more

June 6, 2008

President Bush, ignoring faculty members who stood in silent protest of his commencement speech, admitted Saturday that when he left college, thinking about how to be a "model citizen" was the furthest thing from his mind. ...more

June 1, 2008

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war." ...more

May 28, 2008

Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together. ...more

May 27, 2008

A Marine Corps veteran injured in Vietnam told an audience at Rest Haven Memorial Park on Monday that community service and stronger voting turnout are a better tribute to fallen soldiers than somber ceremonies and rifle salutes. ...more

May 27, 2008

Memorial Day is for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have given their lives for their country and lie in cemeteries around the globe or in some unmarked, forgotten places. ...more

May 26, 2008

SEBRING — When Army Sgt. First Class Judy Puffenbarger went to Iraq, a photo of her taken when her unit was being deployed to the war was sent to her hometown in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Everybody who saw it broke out in laughter. Puffenbarger's blonde hair has grown back, but the day before she left for the war zone she shaved her head. "I did it on a bet, a bet I lost," the 49-year-old Avon Park resident said at the Veterans Administration Community Based Outpatient Clinic, where she works as a receptionist. Puffenbarger, whose father was a World War II Army veteran who lost one of his legs in the battle of Okinawa, bet members of her squad that they would not be deployed to the Iraq war. She offered to shave her head if the order came down for her 33-person unit to ship out to the war. ...more

May 25, 2008

Sen. John McCain is being unfairly ridiculed for wanting to fight the Iraq war for 100 more years. Fighting beyond 2100 is a frightening prospect and it's based on something he did say. But the accusation is an audacious exaggeration. ...more

May 25, 2008

When B.J. Jackson lost both his legs to an Iraq war injury, his doctors talked about a lot of things, but they didn't mention how it might affect his sex life. ...more

May 24, 2008

Shortly after he was put in a cell at Pinellas County Jail, Nick Bollea started complaining about the accommodations to his parents in telephone conversations, often breaking into tears, according to copies of the conversations made by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

May 23, 2008