Not only because Lowell historian Mehmed Ali and others from the city, the Merrimack Valley, and beyond are on duty in Iraq, but also because the death and destruction goes on every day in that world turned upside down, we must remember there’s a war there. Each day in November, rh.com is posting a remembrance of a life lost in World War I. One of the subtexts of this blog is “history as it happens.” Read the cnn.com report on yesterday’s bombings across Iraq’s capital city.