Soldier from Indiana left brother a flag `for good luck’
Behind a trailer in Portage, Ind., with its banister wrapped in yellow ribbon and an American flag balloon near the front door, relatives of Roy Russell Buckley ate fried chicken...
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Air Force captain’s family finds strength in faith
Capt. Eric Bruce Das' strong faith inspired those who knew him. They now turn to that faith when mourning his death. The status of Das, 30, of Amarillo, Texas, was...
Love of service, country
Three-year-old Bailee Mitchell tied yellow ribbons around the oak trees in her West Virginia yard and waited for her father to return from Iraq to untie them together. But on...
Soldier’s ‘work is done here,’ his sister says
Yellowing bibles in the Chicago home of 1st Sgt. Edward Smith remained open Wednesday to Psalm 91, which says that those who love the Lord will be protected from harm....
Families mourn loss of loved ones
Dan Hollinsaid's daily struggle with how his son was faring at war in Iraq ended in the worst possible way. Monday night, Hollinsaid and his wife, of Malden, Ill., heard...
Pride in sons, faith in God help grieving families
Sad news for three families came over days, not suddenly. On Thursday, relatives dealt with the final blow of the Pentagon confirming the deaths in Iraq of their soldier sons,...
When families come together
Nobody will braid Torriana Cox's hair as well as her mother, who died last week trying to escape the E2 nightclub. But there is no shortage of aunts and cousins...
No place to call home
For a child his age, Jason has had few possessions, but he did have his own, worn suitcase. He has slept in cribs and beds in 13 homes, on Chicago's...
Maryville caught in cycle of tragedy
The lives of four children, each tormented by a cycle of neglect and abuse that seems to foretell tragedy, converged last month near railroad tracks in Des Plaines. What happened...
Hit-run driver sought in death
Virtually every workday for eight years, Brian O'Donnell waited on the northwest corner of Randolph and Jefferson Streets near the Loop to pick up Patricia Hartman after she left her...