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https://storycorpsorg-staging.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/Lemus-e1480900230310-672x372-1.jpg672372Nine-year-old Griselda Lemus asks her mother, Sgt. Papsy Lemus, about the 13 months she spent at war serving in Baghdad, Iraq, and the difficulty of leaving her family in the United States. Originally aired on May 29, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.