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At Broadway Variety, a convenience store which has sent hundreds of care packages to South Portlanders serving overseas, collections continue for fresh parcels of cookies, candy and other home comforts. South Portland’s police department is still missing an officer, on duty in Afghanistan. A Maine national guard unit left the day after Mr Obama’s speech on February 12th, and more will follow this year. The cheering in Washington feels painfully premature to those whose neighbours and relatives are still in Afghanistan, or waiting for fresh deployments there with regular or part-time units. Yet talking to a cross-section of locals, as well as to state military and government officials, the same observations come up repeatedly.
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One town cannot represent American opinion. A windswept coastal city of 25,000, it lost four local men, three of them young graduates from the same high school. And the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns cost South Portland dearer than most places in Maine. No state has lost more soldiers in Afghanistan, per person, than Maine-a fertile recruiting ground in every conflict since the civil war and still today home to an unusual number of veterans. The small city of South Portland in Maine is one of many obscure places to be heavily touched by war since the September 11th 2001 attacks. Beyond Washington, in the sort of American communities that provide the backbone of the armed forces, it prompts a more complicated response. After a grinding decade, Mr Obama declared ringingly in his state-of-the-union address that “our brave men and women in uniform” are coming home. By the end of next year the war will be over, the mission completed. This spring American forces will move to a support role behind Afghan allies. Michael Haynie (Olaf), Austin Colby (Hans), Jeremy Morse (Weselton) Click here to read the media's caption.Barack Obama’s talk of peace does not convince a city marked by warĪFTER long years of messy combat, America’s mission in Afghanistan is going to have a swift and tidy ending, Barack Obama recently told Congress. With: Caroline Bowman (Elsa), Caroline Innerbichler (Anna), Mason Reeves (Kristoff), F. Michael Haynie (Olaf), Austin Colby (Hans), Jeremy Morse (Weselton) Disney Theatrical Productions under the direction of Thomas Schumacher presents Frozen, the North American Tour, music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and book by Jennifer Lee directed by Michael Grandagewith: Caroline Bowman (Elsa), Caroline Innerbichler (Anna), Mason Reeves (Kristoff), F. Michael Haynie (Olaf), Austin Colby (Hans), Jeremy Morse (Weselton) Click here to read the media's caption. Disney Theatrical Productions under the direction of Thomas Schumacher presents Frozen, the North American Tour, music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and book by Jennifer Lee
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