Monday Reading

Ken Fuson: Tipton, Ia. -- The United States is at war, and Kenny Jedlicka has a job to do.



He dresses in his dark blue color guard uniform. He wears his American Legion cap; he's the commander of Post 123. His uniform contains a blue star flag pin, indicating that he had a loved one serving in the Iraq war, and a gold star pin, indicating that the loved one had been killed in action.







Charlie LeDuff: DETROIT -- Her real name was Tamara Greene, an arresting, thick-bodied stripper known as Strawberry. By now her death is the stuff of Detroit legend, a whodunit of sex and politics and power.



The most incredible plot is a simple one: She is said to have danced at a party at the…