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...message: in the U.S. armed forces, every person counts. If you take a round, your buddies will come and get you. "The Ranger creed is that you do not leave a fallen comrade on the field of battle," says David Anderson, of Jacksonville, Florida, a former Ranger whose son, Marc Anthony Anderson, followed him into the Army. "I really believed in what the creed says, and Marc did. He said, 'If something happens to me, don't worry, because you'll have a body...
...Last week Marc's body, along with those of seven other American soldiers, was flown from Afghanistan to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany before coming home for those proud, sad ceremonies that mark the death of young men in battle. The Army had once more been asked to live up to the promise it makes to those who serve. "We don't leave Americans behind," says Brigadier General John Rosa Jr., deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last week that word was kept. But the price for doing so was high...
MADAGASCAR Bad Loser Ongoing protests against the results of December's elections caused chaos in the capital, Antananarivo, and pushed President Didier Ratsiraka to declare martial law. Opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana claimed to have won, even though official polling figures showed he had drawn less than half the vote. Though Ratsiraka, who has been in power for 23 years, continued to occupy the presidential palace, Ravalomanana declared himself President...
...Marc N. Pollack, chief financial officer of University Health Services (UHS) and a teacher at Harvard’s Extension School, died unexpectedly on Feb. 19 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston...
...Marc was a very sociable person. He always had something nice to say,” Rosenthal said. “He was very thoughtful...