As U.S. troops leave Iraq, what is the legacy of eight years of war?
Cindi Staats, a 54-year-old disabled former aerospace worker from Walnut, Calif., made it her mission to catalogue the Iraq war's toll. Her website, fallen-coalition-heroes.com, is a roll call of every American fatality and became the source for The New York Times and others. | Jonathan Alcorn / MCT
By David Goldstein | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Think for a moment about the emotional seesaw of someone who has lost a loved one in Iraq and hears that the war is about to end.
At first, there is relief: Americans will finally stop dying in a distant desert. Then an indescribable sadness, because it comes too late.
Ami Neiberger-Miller was on a plane to Colorado filled with soldiers on the day before President Barack Obama's October announcement that all remaining troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year.
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