NATO nations meeting in Portugal have agreed to start turning over Afghanistan’s security to its military next year. The plan would give local forces full control by 2014. (Nov. 20) (AP)
On November 16, 2010, Staff Sergeant Sal Giunta of the 173rd Airborne will become the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War. His actions occurred in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley duiring the deployment chronicled in the movie “Restrepo.” This fourteen-minute video tells his story.
Michael Kamber discusses “working around the edges” of the Iraq War since 2003 as a photojournalist for The New York Times. “I think that we need to publish those photos for history even if we can’t get them in the newspaper today.”