Word: sheehan
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...Veteran Charles Sheehan-Miles...
During the last days of the first Gulf War, a 19-year-old tank crewman named Charles Sheehan-Miles found himself face to face with the enemy in the southern Iraqi desert. Assigned to stop Iraqi forces from fleeing to Baghdad, his division had found a fuel truck filled with Iraqi troops. The Americans blasted the truck with cannon fire; when those still alive tried to run rather than be taken prisoner, Sheehan-Miles and his platoon mates shot and killed them. "What we did was militarily right," Sheehan-Miles says now. "But I had to live with myself after...
Social Studies concentrator Genevieve M. Sheehan ’05 agrees that the side effects of being overcommitted can be exhilarating...
What makes it worth it for Sheehan is the thought that, ultimately, there may be a future payoff...
...other students interviewed for this article echo Sheehan. But few of them can specify what the light at the end of the tunnel...