Chuck Haga: An endless war that produced a new North Dakota family
A few months later helping Americans in Iraq, Mrs. M arrived in Fargo, welcomed at the airport by many of those same soldiers.
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Chuck Haga is a columnist for the Grand Forks Herald. (Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald)
Many years from now, when historians assess our long involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest of the Middle East, judgment is likely to be harsh. Motives, policies and practices will be examined, questioned, and perhaps condemned.
But a fair assessment also will take account of generous, unselfish and even noble actions, especially by individual troops and units who may have wondered about the overall mission but truly believed they were over there to do good.