Free Republic

Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz presented the Purple Heart at the Pentagon today to a soldier wounded when the Al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad came under attack by Iraqi insurgents last October. Wolfowitz, who also was staying in the hotel during the Oct. 26 attack, met Army Col. Elias Nimmer at the 28th Combat Support Hospital, where Nimmer and four others who worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority were treated for serious injuries from the attack. Nimmer was the only service member hospitalized. Another soldier, Lt. Col. Charles H. Buehring with Army Central Command Headquarters (Forward), was killed during the attack....