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Star Spangled Baghdad
Gunner Palace ^
| June 13, 2004
| M. Tucker
Posted on 06/13/2004 1:33:58 PM PDT by nomad66
I returned in September 2003 to a radically different Baghdad. During the first week, four months after the end of "Major Combat Operations", I was drawn into a massive firefight in downtown Baghdad. Later, a soldier would comment with a grin, "We call this minor combat".
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TOPICS: VetsCoR
KEYWORDS: baghdad; freestyle; hendrix; rap; soldiers
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posted on
06/13/2004 1:33:59 PM PDT
by
nomad66
To: nomad66; snippy_about_it; SAMWolf
To: Professional Engineer
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posted on
06/15/2004 9:52:27 AM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(I'm not rude, I'm "attitudinally challenged".)
To: Professional Engineer
The emails and the Sat phones helped them stay in touch with family, but all the technology in the world couldn't bring them home. Thanks PE. Moving story.
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06/15/2004 10:25:56 AM PDT
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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