Last updated 2:29AM ET
February 17, 2012
KPLU Local News
Army Family's Choice: Kids' Care Or Deployment?
Bellamy Pailthorp
(2009-11-23)
FORT LEWIS, WA
(KPLU) -
KPLU's Bellamy Pailthorp reports that even committed military families rethink their allegiance when bureaucracy ignores their needs. She tells the story on an Army wife who fought her husband's transfer from Fort Lewis, Washington, to a small town in Louisiana so that her two young children could get the medical and mental health care they need -- but staying near the family's current care providers meant seeing her husband deployed to Iraq for a third time. Visit the NPR page here.
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