CONTAINING LINKS TO 1280 STORIES FROM THE NETWORKS' NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS
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Both ABC and NBC returned to an Iraqi theme to end the week--not about the war itself but about the reservists called up from their daily lives to fight it. For NBC's Coming Home series, James Hattori profiled the California grade school where a nine-year-old boy organized care packages for his father's unit in Iraq. And ABC's Elizabeth Vargas (subscription required), returning to the anchor chair in substitution for Charles Gibson for the first time since her maternity leave, made Jessica Gaulke, Minneapolis' Queen of the Lakes beauty pageant winner, the Person of the Week. Queen Jessica's National Guard unit has been called up so she must now abdicate her crown and head off to war.

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