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The Associated Press is reporting that the Al-Qaida-linked insurgents who captured three U.S. soldiers in Iraq last month released a video that says that the men - including Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25 and of Lawrence - have been killed. "The Americans sent 4,000 soldiers looking for them," a voice on the video says, according to the AP. "They were alive and then dead." According to reports, the video includes footage of insurgents planning the... more ›

When Bostonist read in today's Globe that area armed forces recruiters have been having more and more trouble getting the youngsters to sign up, we first assumed it might be because the reporting of the war in Iraq and the accompanying imagery are so much more graphic and immediate than they were in past generations. Some of the kids interviewed suggested that today's high schoolers are simply more selfish than their parents were at their... more ›