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    Alabama's Fallen Warriors: The price one state paid for the war on terror
    Alabama's Fallen Warriors: The price one state paid for the war on terror
    Alabama's Fallen Warriors: The price one state paid for the war on terror
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    Alabama's Fallen Warriors: The price one state paid for the war on terror

    By Jane Self

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    After Sept. 11, 2001, when the United States officially launched the War on Terror, nearly 7,000 U.S. troops gave their lives supporting the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an estimated one million or more were wounded. Of the casualties, 139 grew up in Alabama or lived part of their lives there. Four of the servicemen and servicewomen killed in the Pentagon on Sept. 11 had ties to Alabama as well.

    The deaths of these troops impacted thousands of people – parents, children, spouses, other family members, friends, classmates, military buddies.

    “Alabama’s Fallen Warriors: The price one state paid for the war on terror” continues a project started in 2006 by The Tuscaloosa News profiling those who died. This book is intended to give at least a brief view of these men and women, plus the 45 who have died since the newspaper series ended, as their families and communities knew them. Their stories need to be told and preserved. Those who died in service to their country should never be forgotten.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJane Self
    Release dateJul 17, 2015
    ISBN9781310487798
    Alabama's Fallen Warriors: The price one state paid for the war on terror
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    Jane Self

    Jane Self is a 20-year newspaper veteran who was Features Editor at The Tuscaloosa News when the Fallen Warriors series began. After taking early retirement in 2007, she continued writing the articles on a freelance basis until the series ended in 2009.Prior to her newspaper career, Jane was a planner for the Georgia Department of Offender Rehabilitation and an educator for almost a decade in Louisiana and Alabama.She is now a freelance writer and editor living in Durham, North Carolina. She can be reached at jane@janeself.com.

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