Is #Iraq the New Forgotten War?

 

|by Megan McCloskey

 

Before the sympathy, Britney Hocking sometimes gets skepticism when she shares that her older brother was killed last month in Iraq.

 

“I’ve actually had people ask me: ‘Do you mean Afghanistan?’ ” she said.

 

Some also have wondered aloud whether Sgt. Brandon Hocking’s death was a freak accident.

 

That a Soldier could still be killed in Iraq by an improvised explosive device surprises people. Our presence there and the potential for violence has largely faded from the American conscience.

 

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