Carrie Underwood

<b><a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB005280" title="Carrie Underwood" href="/topic/entertainment/music/carrie-underwood-PECLB005280.topic">Carrie Underwood</a> singing "Just a Dream," and Various Artists, "Body of War: Songs That Inspired an <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="EVHST000043" title="Iraq War (2003-2011)" href="/topic/unrest-conflicts-war/wars-interventions/iraq-war-%282003-2011%29-EVHST000043.topic">Iraq War</a> Veteran":</b> It's hard to deny the hope that greets the upcoming Obama presidency -- or the economic fears of year's end. But both distract from the long sorrow of America's ongoing military struggles. <a href="http://topics.latimes.com/entertainment/people/carrie-underwood">Underwood</a>'s single and the accompanying video, in which she transforms from bride to war widow, is top-notch tear-jerking melodrama. The album compiled by "Body of War" subject Tomas Young, a paralyzed vet turned peace activist, is gritty protest. Both vividly remind us that war is hell.

( Mark Humphrey / Associated Press )

Carrie Underwood singing "Just a Dream," and Various Artists, "Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran": It's hard to deny the hope that greets the upcoming Obama presidency -- or the economic fears of year's end. But both distract from the long sorrow of America's ongoing military struggles. Underwood's single and the accompanying video, in which she transforms from bride to war widow, is top-notch tear-jerking melodrama. The album compiled by "Body of War" subject Tomas Young, a paralyzed vet turned peace activist, is gritty protest. Both vividly remind us that war is hell.

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