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...past maintained up to 40,000 troops at North Korea's border with the South. Bush needs only to look in the mirror to see the person most responsible for forcing North Korea to go nuclear. Reno S. Zack San Dimas, California, U.S. For the Missing Soldier Thank you for your article on Private First Class Matt Maupin, who was taken captive by insurgents in Iraq 10 months ago and is still missing [Feb. 21]. Though many Americans may have forgotten about Matt, a number of us haven't. I feared that type of tragedy when...
Just a week after U.S. troops in Iraq killed Italian agent Nicola Calipari and wounded freed hostage Giuliana Sgrena, a similar incident emerged involving another U.S. ally: Bulgaria. On the evening that the Italians were shot, U.S. troops near the Iraqi city of Diwaniya killed a Bulgarian soldier, Gurdi Gurdev, whose patrol had stopped 150 m short of a U.S. checkpoint without realizing it was there. The Bulgarians, according to a letter posted on the Web by a "combat buddy" of the deceased, fired warning shots at a civilian Iraqi vehicle that was approaching them. "The Americans didn't know...
...body. "It stinks really bad. It's hard to accept. Why me?" asks Frentz, her emotions fluctuating by the moment between anger and depression. "Some people are just happy to be alive," she says, after working out in the physical-therapy room at Brooke along with a soldier who is missing both legs and another with burns so bad his eyelids and nose are raw red stubs. "I'm just pissed...
...Against inserted radio clips of Donald Rumsfeld’s pronouncements of progress in Iraq, the sequences of the soldiers’ assignments reveal that their duties and equipment remain unchanged. Days are spent patrolling the streets of Baghdad in scrap-metal-sided Humvees (armor deftly satirized by one soldier as guaranteed to “slow the shrapnel down so that it stays in your body instead of going clean through it?...
...parents, who he describes as hippies, set their child apart from the crowd, giving him his distinctive first name to honor a soldier who protected the French supply of arms and beaver pelts against the English...