Jan 5th, 2009 · In 2005, Dana Canedy's fiance — Charles King — was deployed to Iraq. King started writing a journal to their infant son, in case he didn't make it home. After King lost his life in a roadside bomb attack, Canedy turned King's 200-page journal into a memoir, called A Journal for Jordan.
Dec 21st, 2008 · Many of veterans injured by roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan were burned beyond recognition. The medical staff members who dress their wounds in the burn unit of Brooke Army Medical Center help ease their agonizing pain. But they also fight their own emotional battles.
Dec 20th, 2008 · Army Staff Sgt. Robert Henline suffered severe burns over 38 percent of his body when his truck hit a roadside bomb. His recovery has been difficult, but he and his family keep looking forward to the "next positive thing."
Aug 25th, 2008 · In July 1916, Lawrence "Chubby" Woodman's roadside potato chip stand wasn't doing so well. So Chubby tried tossing some battered clams into boiling oil and, as the restaurant says, "made culinary history." Chubby opened a clam shack in Essex, Mass., which is still there.
Jun 25th, 2008 · Marines in Garmsir, a district in Helmand province, Afghanistan, are paying for home repairs in an effort to curry favor with locals. They're also on the lookout for suicide bombers and deadly roadside bombs.
Jun 1st, 2008 · Traveling from Jalabad to Afghanistan's capital has improved since the Taliban was overthrown. But a roadside bomb provides a deadly reminder that danger still lurks.
May 30th, 2008 · When a roadside bomb in Afghanistan exploded earlier this month, it killed Michael Bhatia, an American academic embedded with U.S. troops. It also delivered a blow to the controversial U.S. military program that he served with.
May 6th, 2008 · Just over a year ago, Lt. Douglas McGregor and NPR's Jamie Tarabay shared a brush with death in the Iraqi province of Diyala. The two recently reconnected in Texas to reflect on an IED explosion that rocked their Humvee and on life since the blast.