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degree in playwriting and non-fiction writing. He was enrolled at the
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events and by high school he was president of a local chapter of the
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Cedar Rapids family blames burn pit in Iraq for son's cancer death
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His unit arrived in Iraq in 2004, six weeks after revelation of
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Casteel, Joshua (2017). Clair, Joseph; Casteel, Kristi (eds.).
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as part of the National MFA Playwright's Festival. Casteel's
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Joining the army is not a sacrament, it's a pagan allegiance.
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he guarded and slept by while he served in the Iraqi war.
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United States military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison
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