Indiana town is torn by war, duty

Indiana town is torn by war, duty

GRIFFITH, Ind. -- Down on Broad Street, near a weathered World War II tank, people have been gathering at a memorial marker where the names of an American town's war dead are etched in granite.

Two new names are written in plastic and attached with glue, waiting to be etched into stone with the others.

In a town founded in 1904 and built for those who worked on the rails and in the steel mills, the people are grieving again, this time for a local soldier killed April 4, a year to the day after the first local man died in Iraq. But there are feelings other than grief here, as well--complicated and shifting sentiments about the war and occupation in Iraq.

After a deadly few weeks, with Iraq growing increasingly violent and unstable, questions are percolating among local leaders and residents in this small town in northwest Indiana, where sons and daughters continue to heed a call of duty and go off to war.

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Indiana town is torn by war, duty

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