Webcams Allow Virtual Visits [Corrected 12/28/04] ; Videoconferencing That Lets Maine Soldiers in Iraq See and Be Seen Back Home Is a Comfort.

Portland Press Herald › December 28, 2004

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The other day, Spc. Shawn Murray sat his son down by the computer, looked him in the eye and gently lectured him for not doing homework. Then he grounded the 10-year-old for a week.

Parenting from 6,000 miles away in a war-torn country had never been so easy, Murray has discovered with the aid of a Web camera and a $30-a-month broadband connection.

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Webcams Allow Virtual Visits [Corrected 12/28/04] ; Videoconferencing That Lets Maine Soldiers in Iraq See and Be Seen Back Home Is a Comfort.

Murray, who is stationed in northern Iraq with the Maine Army National Guard's 133rd Engineer Battalion, teleconferences daily with his fiancee and their children from a windowless bedroom built from scr...

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