Radiothon to support construction of a place for wounded veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan in West Roxbury.

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Kevin Cullen says this story was hard to write. But even though you know how it ends, you'll read it to the end.

Change of heart for previously hawkish congressman?

Boston Common and Harvard.

City elections officials ordered a local troop's collection boxes for soldiers in Iraq removed from polling places last week because of complaints they were pro-war.

Boston Police report arresting 18 people at City Hall around 2 p.m. today on charges of "disturbing a lawful assembly of people:"

The protestors, a group from an organization called Veterans for Peace, created a disturbance throughout the proceedings. On several occasions, police officers warned the group that if they continued to deliberately interrupt and disrupt the assembly they would face arrest. When offered an alternative location from which to protest from, the protestors refused.

Veterans for Peace.

Here, here and here.

You may have seen the stories (Globe, WBZ) about the deployment to Iraq of a certain Massachusetts Army unit that dates to before the Revolution and that was commanded by Paul Revere at the battles of Lexington and Concord back in the day.

J.L. Bell agrees it dates back to pre-Revolution days, but writes what any school kid (but not, apparently, local editors) should know: Revere

didn't lead any troops on Lexington Green. He was busy moving a trunk of papers that John Hancock had left behind. Revere never reached Concord at all that night. And he held no military rank or command in April 1775. ...

Jeff Egnaczyk was good friends with Andrew Bacevich, killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq on Sunday. He mourns him:

... Carol and I invited him to our wedding but he was off in basic training at the time (he bought a pot that we use quite often, woot). I'd see him every several months after that as he had time off. I last saw him a couple of months ago when he was home on leave. I pumped him for information about what life was like over there. I had planned to do that for years. It's not that this is unbelievable. He was in a dangerous place. It's just that it's so unexpected. And god damnit it's sad to see him go. I am weeping thinking about his life cut short. I will miss you, Andy. Rest in peace.

Jules Crittenden ponders the death of Andrew Bacevich, an Army lieutenant whose father, a BU professor, was critical of the war:

... I'm going to my 11-year-old son’s baseball games and band concerts these days, only wondering where life will take him. It breaks my heart to think of a father's dreams shattered and it is all I can do not to sob at the thought of it. ...