Washington Post
Staff reporter for the Washington Post, covering issues involving veterans and the military; historian and author of Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
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Steve Vogel
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FROM Steve Vogel
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'The Perilous Fight' in the War of 1812 Living Americans remember September 11, and even Pearl Harbor, when the country was attacked from the outside. There was another "perilous fight" during the War of 1812, when Washington's best-known buildings were burned to the ground. Steve Vogel, staff reporter at the Washington Post , is a historian and author of Through the Perilous Fight : Six Weeks that Saved the Nation.
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'The Perilous Fight' in the War of 1812 Living Americans remember September 11, and even Pearl Harbor, when the country was attacked from the outside. There was another "perilous fight" during the War of 1812, when Washington's best-known buildings were burned to the ground. Steve Vogel, staff reporter at the Washington Post , is a historian and author of Through the Perilous Fight : Six Weeks that Saved the Nation.
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Tenth Anniversary of the Iraq War: The Personal Impact In 2003, Saddam Hussein was said to have "weapons of mass destruction." There were hints he was tied to September 11. Eighty percent of Americans supported the US invasion. Ten years later, 58 percent say it was not worth years of unexpected combat, more than $2 trillion— and the deaths of 4500 Americans and 100,000 Iraqis. Marcos Soltero always wanted to be a Marine, and enlisted when he was 17 — two months after the Twin Towers collapsed in 2001. Linda Johnson watched both her husband and her youngest son go to war. Tomorrow, we'll look at why the war is so widely perceived to have gone wrong. Today, we focus on the human consequences: veterans and families coping with injured brains and bodies. Was there ever a real welcome home?
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Government Unloads Historic US Lighthouses "For Sale: Historic waterfront property with a spectacular 50-foot-high view of Lake Michigan. Featuring solid, century-old cast-iron construction pained distinctive red. Comes with its own Fresnel lens for signaling ships." The advertisement is for the North Pierhead Lighthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, one of many lighthouses being made available under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000 . That's according to Steve Vogel with the Washington Post .
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