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• A touch of home on Thanksgiving
  Members of a Minnesota National Guard company in Afghanistan played touch football in a Morale Bowl, of sorts.
  Nov 26, 2009
• Honor Flights: A thank-you to our vets
  A daylong trip to Washington, D.C., will be full of memories for a World War II parachute packer and more than 100 of his fellow veterans.
  Nov 6, 2009
• A close look: Mission Impossible in Afghanistan?
  Frank Ball, the former police chief of Brainerd, is pessimistic about the U.S. role in Afghanistan. And Frank Ball should know.
  Nov 3, 2009
• Bemidji native dies in Afghanistan
  Randy Bergquist's body was among three found in the wreckage of an Army reconnaissance plane that crashed in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan. He was 53.
  Oct 28, 2009
• 'You just broke the mold with him'
  The Bemidji native's body was found two weeks after his plane went missing in Afghanistan.
  Oct 27, 2009
• A taste of home, away from home
  Though volunteers at the Armed Forces Service Center bring much-needed comfort to troops, resources are taxed because of increased troop movements.
  Oct 17, 2009
• Surviving combat, dying in mystery
  National Guard Maj. Tad Hervas of Coon Rapids is among growing number of Minnesotans stationed in Iraq and killed outside battle.
  Oct 13, 2009
• Flying deep into Middle East — from Fargo
  A new world of air combat is unfolding inside a secretive facility in Fargo, N.D., where pilots sitting in front of video screens and clutching joysticks are conducting missions over Iraq and Afghanistan.
  Oct 10, 2009
• Coon Rapids soldier dies in Iraq
  National Guard major succumbed to noncombat injuries at a base in Basra.
  Oct 7, 2009
• As troops draw down, more contractors hired
  Two men from Detroit Lakes who spent 15 months in Iraq with the Guard are back: In better-paid and safer jobs.
  Oct 2, 2009

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