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...propelled-grenade (RPG) launcher, Harding recalls, "suddenly appeared, whirled around and pointed the RPG. And all hell broke loose." The grenade pierced the window of the armored humvee on the driver's side, engulfing the occupants in smoke, blood and shrapnel. Harding yelled at the driver, Lance Corporal Andrew Halverson, one day shy of his 20th birthday, to control the spinning vehicle. Then Harding looked over at him. "I saw his body. It wasn't normal. I instantly knew he was dead." The gunner, protected by a turret, was hit below the waist but still alive. The Marine...
...aftershocks of trauma. Harding dealt with his anxieties by talking to other members of his company about them. Every time the events of that day ran though his mind, he said a prayer. He was reassured by visits from the battalion chaplain, who told the Marines to honor Halverson and their own good fortune by carrying...
...Halverson cited the belief that everything must have a cause and the complexity of DNA, the universe, and other natural phenomena as evidence of a creator...
...nowhere near payday, and Lisa Halverson was down to $10 and a package of diapers. While she enjoyed working as a typist in Minneapolis, day-care expenses for her two preschoolers, at $160 a week, ate most of her $207 take-home pay. Halverson felt she had no choice but to go on welfare. "The hardest thing I ever had to do," she says, "was to tell my boss I couldn't afford to work anymore...
...fast, Lisa. Instead of paying her to stay home, welfare officials encouraged her to keep her low-paying job and offered to pay all but $25 of her monthly day-care bill. That was in 1994, and today it's clear that Minnesota's investment in Halverson paid off. She got off the dole after a year, and now earns a $45,000 salary as a manager at a regional telephone company. She has never married, but Halverson, 29, says she would like to change that...