Over the last few years, there has been a lot of pressure placed on the military to reduce wartime casualties. One of the ways they hope to do this is by employing unmanned ground vehicles. In fact, the military hopes that a full third of its ground vehicles fleet will be unmanned in [...]

A soldier came home in a box, recently. Nothing new there, considering military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. This soldier, one Staff Sgt. Christopher N. Piper, was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. He was a supporter of free speech, and a supporter of gay rights.
His hometown of Marblehead herladed him [...]