Word: soldierly
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...handed the rifle to Dowdy, who tried to fix it, but he failed and just threw it back to her in frustration. She held it like a soldier would, but she might as well have been back in West Virginia, playing war with pop-guns. They had just crawled back to the humvee when Jessi heard a single, sharp gunshot, then silence, then the gunfire began to chatter, coming closer...
...have any now. As the big machines made their slow U-turn, one of the trucks ran out of gas. The convoy stopped, and Jessi, Lori and others piled out of the humvees and trucks and formed a guard around the truck as another soldier poured gas into...
...soldier, left behind, was not picked up as the vehicles swerved away...
...doctors spotted an American soldier on a nearby rooftop. The nurses slid Jessi's hospital bed over to the window so it would be in plain sight. "They wanted them to see me," Jessi said...
Rumors had trickled in for days of a female captive in the city, of a soldier with blond hair. "As the situation developed over time, we began to get some indications...that there may be an injured U.S. military member held in this hospital," said U.S. Air Force Major General Victor E. Renuart, Centcom's director of operations. Then, on about March 27 or 28, Mohammed Odeh Rehaief, a lawyer in Nasiriyah, approached some Marines just outside the downtown area and told them of a blond captive inside Saddam Hussein General Hospital...