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MIKE HUCKABEE (R., ARK.) His frequent appearances in PSAs, notably a health-care ad in which he is surrounded by a throng of grateful children, helped inspire G.O.P. state senator Gunner DeLay to sponsor a so-called Huck TV bill to ban such ads. Although it was defeated last year, DeLay has said he will try again...
...suicide. Major General Frank (Buster) Hagenbeck, the force commander, agreed, and the choppers veered away to the north, climbing steeply. They found a place to set down and did a head count. On the damaged Chinook, one man was missing. They counted again. Navy SEAL Neil Roberts, the rear gunner who had been returning fire from the open back hatch, was no longer with his team. Roberts had apparently been jolted out when the chopper banked hard to the north...
...suicide. Major General Frank (Buster) Hagenbeck, the force commander, agreed, and the choppers veered away to the north, climbing steeply. They found a place to set down and did a head count. On the damaged Chinook, one man was missing. They counted again. Navy SEAL Neil Roberts, the rear gunner who had been returning fire from the open back hatch, was no longer with his team. Roberts had apparently been jolted out when the chopper banked hard to the north...
...room stirs. We stumble outside. The air is frigid and the last stars hang like frozen embers. With Khwaja, I move up to the firing line in the cinema to join the machine gunner and watch the milky whiteness of dawn. Orders are not to start any firefights but Khwaja has a powerful pair of lungs. "Hey, mullahs!" he bellows across no-man's land. "Ragheads! Have you said your prayers yet?" Out of the half-light come return salvos of insults and laughter. It's the beginning of another day in a war that, north of Kabul...
...having served two years as a gunner on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise in the Pacific, he watched another carrier, the U.S.S. Franklin, turned into an oven by a Japanese bombing attack, smelling the stench of more than 700 men slow-roasted alive between its steel decks. "After that," he wrote, "I became a f___ing coward & was ready to come home immediately, to hell with the war & all that crap about what we are fighting for, etc? Well anyway the Korean War came along & I wanted to see if I was still a coward--I was!" By 1952, when...