Interview with fallen soldier's dad inspires song 'I Drive Your Truck'

About three months ago, Raynham’s Paul Monti received a Facebook link to a song. The lyrics told of a pickup truck — a pickup truck that belonged to ...

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More Portraits of Soldiers Before, During, and After War + Interview

My Modern Metropolis May 14

About six months ago, we shared photographer Lalage Snow's powerful series of triptychs titled We Are The Not Dead depicting the transformative faces ...

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Biz Stone's Jelly raises money from big name investors

VatorTV May 16

Al Gore, Bono, Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman and Evan Williams all contributed Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has been remarkably cagey about what his new ...

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After bombings, I believed social media

The Washington Post May 02

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. — Anyone who has turned on a television, radio or computer in the past couple of weeks is aware of the monsoon of misinformation ...

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Love during war time > How a Chico family—newly wed and with newborns—faced Dad’s deployment to Afghanistan.

Chico News & Review May 09

As Samantha Eitel puts it, 2010 was a “surreal, crazy, emotional rollercoaster” of a time for her and her then-new husband, Sgt.

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Charles Ramsey, who rescued Cleveland women held captive, enjoys fame in the District

Marc Fisher for The Washington Post May 12

Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland dishwasher who heard a scream, kicked in a door and rescued three women from horrific captivity, stepped out of a white ...

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A.M. Links: IRS Fibbed About Surge in Non-Profit Applications, Aaron Swartz Left a …

Reason Magazine May 16

While President Obama accepts the resignations of IRS apparatchiks who were about to leave, anyway, he may want to do something about that smell of ...

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