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Military Family Reflects on Sacrifices of Iraq Service

Gen. Mark Hertling spent a year leading operations in the Iraqi city of Najaf. In the first of an occasional series on national service, NPR's Steve Inkseep speaks with Hertling and his wife Sue, who spent that year alone at a U.S. military base in Germany.

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