Infant deaths at Bragg have families weighing housing options

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Infant deaths at Bragg have families weighing housing options
By Mike Hixenbaugh
Staff writer
Published: 07:39 AM, Sun Sep 05, 2010

Ashley Taylor felt a sense of security when she and her soldier husband brought their newborn son home to their recently renovated house on Fort Bragg.

Two years later, Taylor said, you couldn't pay her enough to move back there.

"We didn't have a ton of problems or anything," Taylor said Friday. "But with all that's going on, I just feel safer living off base."

The 29-year-old stay-at-home mom isn't alone. She and her husband are among scores of military families who say they are troubled by an ongoing Army review of 10 unexplained infant deaths that have occurred inside Fort Bragg housing units since 2007.

The Army announced the investigation during a news conference last week. Since then, military message boards, Facebook forums and Twitter feeds have been abuzz with comments from military moms - at Fort Bragg and from across the country - who say they would be terrified to live with a young child on the sprawling installation.

[burnsei sensei]

1. The atmosphere of constant war is deleterious

to children and families everywhere.
Why wasn't this clear right from the start?