Tara McKelvey

THE MAN BEHIND CRANDALL CANYON. Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has publicly attacked Crandall Canyon’s co-owner, Robert Murray: “I thought the way the families were treated was unconscionable and they deserved better,” he told The Salt Lake Tribune. Huntsman is one of the few political leaders in Utah or elsewhere who has gone after the […]

WAR PHOTOGRAPHY. More than 90 percent of soldiers survive their wounds in the Iraq war. This is, of course, a positive development. But recovery is a long, difficult process often done in isolation. The producers of a new HBO documentary, “Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq,” which will air in September, and photographer Nina Berman, […]

MILITARY JUSTICE. Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan is scheduled to face a court-martial in Fort Meade, Maryland, this week. He is “the only military officer accused in the prisoner abuse scandal at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib,” writes Fanny Carrier of the French Press Agency. His trial is being closely watched by military experts, lawyers, human-rights advocates […]

ESPIRT DE CORPS. My friend, an Army officer, sounded upbeat on Friday. He called me on his cell phone, waiting for a flight at Reagan National Airport, and told me he was on his way to Fort Benning, Georgia, and then to Baghdad. He will be working closely with the Iraqi military over the next […]

YOU’RE IN THE ARMY NOW. It is hard to believe there was once controversy over American women fighting on the front lines. “Now when a woman comes back from Iraq in a body bag, nobody says anything,” a female officer who spent a year in Baghdad told me recently. “That’s the way we want it, […]

WASHINGTON AT WAR. It is easy to forget there is a war going on when you are in Seattle, a city with a disproportionate number of vintage-clothing stores, vinyasa studios and places to get lattes in mugs. There are so many distractions — and so little talk of Iraq. In Washington, D.C., at least, the […]