Alison Buckholtz
By Alison Buckholtz
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Opinion 3 Ways To Support Our Jewish Troops and Build Community
In 2009, my husband, an active-duty naval officer, was deployed to Iraq for 12 months. To prepare for a year without him, my children (then ages 6 and 4) and I moved from our military base in Washington State back into the home we owned in the Washington, D.C., area to be close to our…
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News With Their Men in Iraq, Wives Fight an Emotional Battle on the Home Front
When we moved last year from the Washington, D.C., area to Anacortes, Wash. — a Thornton Wilder-era town in the far northwest corner of the state — I spent the first few months cataloging all that was missing from our new home. My parents were gone from our day-to-day lives; back east, in our cozy…
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