VETERANS DAY

While You Were Gone

Updated: November 10, 2010 | 11:05 a.m.
November 8, 2010 | 9:33 a.m.
Amanda Lucier/Virginian-Pilot

Amanda Lucier, a photographer for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, has been photographing and writing about the home front in the long-standing U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each week since September, she has been chronicling milestones in military families' lives. Here are selections from her remarkable series, reprinted with permission.

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