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Thank you for the touching article "Coming Home" [April 12]. My heart breaks for the widow of Staff Sergeant William Ricketts, and I was saddened to read that the media are not so interested in covering these final trips. If the families agree, we should cover all fallen heroes. Maybe public opinion will be a force to end these wars.

Jacqualine Chappuis, STOCKTON, CALIF.

How disturbing that Ricketts was on his fifth tour of duty since joining the Army after 9/11. How could the Defense Department, Congress and the Bush and Obama administrations continue to allow this small number of troops and their families to carry the human burden of this war that will not end and cannot be justified?

Roger Franke, BURNSVILLE, MINN.

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