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Happy Birthday

Posted on by Moni Basu

My mother would have turned 82 today. I would have picked up the phone and called her. 011-91-33-2247-6600. I would have said: Ma! Happy Birthday. I would have asked her what she was doing to celebrate. She would have said that my pishi (aunt) was coming over for lunch. Nothing special was planned. I wold …

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Chaplain Turner's War

Posted on by Moni Basu

Chaplain Darren Turner counsels a soldier at a combat outpost in Arab Jabour, March, 2008. Photo by Curtis Compton/AJC Four years ago, I spent time with an Army chaplain in Iraq because I wanted to write about how war affected American soldiers. His name is Darren Turner. He had only been a chaplain for a …

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