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• Home for the holidays, home for good
  A young Minnesota man, who joined the National Guard to earn money for college, talks about getting back to civilian life after being deployed to Iraq for 16 months.December 21, 2007
• Homayoun Ershadi's strange trip to stardom
  There are many ways of becoming an actor. Take the story of an international movie star with a big role in the new adaptation of "The Kite Runner." Homayoun Ershadi got his big break sitting at a traffic light.December 21, 2007
• All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
  A new production retelling the true story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 reminds us of the power of music to make peace, even in wartime.December 20, 2007
• Cantus & Theater Latte Da - All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
  Imagine putting your rifle down, climbing out of the safety of your trench, and walking across No Man's Land to deliver the gift of song -- to your enemy. Minneapolis-based men's choir, Cantus, and Theater Latte Da perform a new radio drama based on the Christmas truce of 1914.December 20, 2007
• U.S., Europe look at new tactics in Afghanistan
  NATO and the Bush administration are quietly re-evaluating how to rid Afghanistan of the Taliban and increase the Kabul government's control over more of the country.Midmorning, December 19, 2007
• Minnesota's decontamination trailers may be unroadworthy
  Last September an emergency mobile showering unit known as a decontamination trailer overturned on a highway south of the Twin Cities. Now state officials are trying to determine whether the 19 trailers stationed around the state are safe.December 17, 2007
• Mpls. VA reopens Wisconsin clinic after closings
  The clinic will open Dec. 17 at the AmericInn Hotel in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. The clinic will operate temporarily until a permanent clinic is established in the area.December 14, 2007
• How to help soldiers returning from Iraq
  A national soldier reintegration program, which got its start with the Minnesota National Guard, is on its way to approval in the U.S. Senate. The "yellow ribbon' program is intended to offer medical, career and educational support to troops who come home from war.Midday, December 13, 2007
• Sen. Durenberger weighs in on the CIA tapes controversy
  Former Minnesota Republican Sen. David Durenberger, who was chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the mid-1980s, discusses the controversy over the CIA's destruction of al-Qaida interrogation videotapes.Midday, December 12, 2007
• Deceased soldier listed from Minnesota grew up in Missouri
  A soldier who lived for two years outside the northern Minnesota town of Bovey before he joined the Army and went to Iraq loved video games and comic books, his brother said.December 11, 2007
• Helene Turnbull writes herself a new job
  A 70-year-old retired high school counselor writes her first play and gets it staged in St. Paul.December 7, 2007
• Two lives changed by Pearl Harbor
  Ken Deans was in the Army on the Island of Oahu on Dec. 7th, l941. His base was hit during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Carl Nomura was 19 at the time and living in Los Angeles. Not long after the attack, he and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps.Midday, December 7, 2007
• Fourteen months in Iraq
  Iraqi-American Abbas Mehdi is back in Minnesota after spending 14 months helping rebuild his country's economy.Midday, December 6, 2007
• From Cold War to Cold Peace
  When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, there was a chance for cooperation where there had once been conflict. But 18 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, relations between Washington and Moscow are once again icy.Midday, December 6, 2007
• Soldier: 'If I was to die, it would've been an honor'
  Another Minnesota soldier died this week in Baghdad. Sgt. 1st Class John Tobiason of Hayfield was 42. Little is known about how Tobiason died. It's reported that he stepped out of a tent and shots were fired.November 30, 2007

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