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...Then his convoy started taking fire from the direction of the van, and Talraas was hit in the leg. "It felt like something had snapped my bone in half," says the young soldier from his hospital bed at Tallil Air Base in south eastern Iraq...
...walking wounded, but as soon as the DUSTOFFS hit the ground, the waiting company brought out Maita, Talraas and a paratrooper who had been shot in the right kidney. But that wasn't Barbe's only surprise that morning. He knew these guys; this was his old brigade. The soldier with the gut wound was a friend of his, and was rapidly losing consciousness...
...weeks ago on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume argued quite eloquently that Time Magazine’s “Person of the Century” distinction could well have gone to the American soldier. I got to thinking about his remarks this past Saturday while attending a “Support Our Troops” rally at the local Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. Standing beside me waving flags, and speaking at the podium, were veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. There may be no more humbling experience for a college...
Over the course of the past 60 years, the American soldier has liberated Nazi death camps; thwarted Japanese attempts to build a racist, fascist empire in east Asia; saved millions of Koreans from the horrors of a Stalinist police state; fought valiantly to protect the freedom of the South Vietnamese; ended the torture, rape and murder of innocent Kuwaitis; and helped stop gruesome slaughter and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. Moreover, for roughly 40 of those years the American soldier also protected Western Europe from Soviet aggression—a noble undertaking that ensured countless millions would never have...
Indeed, we are reminded on a seemingly daily basis of just what makes the American soldier so unique. Consider the story of Pfc. Joseph P. Dwyer, whose picture, by now, you’ve likely seen in a newspaper or on television. Pfc. Dwyer is an Army medic who enlisted two days after Sept. 11. (His three brothers are New York City police officers). Last Tuesday, his unit, the 3rd Squadron of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, was ambushed by Hussein’s troops as they advanced northward along the Euphrates River. The Iraqis were firing from both sides...