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<p>This was posted as a comment but I think it deserves it's own thread.</p> <p>Here is a picture of us terrorizing women and children in the dead of night after we kicked in some doors...</p> <p>OK, maybe not...</p> <p>Do they really look terrorized to you?</p>

Servicemembers Unite to Save Iraqi Girl's Life Many doubted she would live to play again. By Lance Cpl. Geoffrey P. Ingersoll 1st Marine Logistics Group CAMP HABBANIYAH, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2007 -- "She is our future... that's why we support the Iraqi Police, so they can provide a secure future for (Iraqi children)," said Lt. Col. Bob McCarthy, Police Transition Team Leader, in response to an Iraqi tribal leader's gratitude toward U.S. forces for their efforts to save an Iraqi youth named Riyam Shihan. "She is our future... that's why we support the Iraqi Police, so they can provide...

(CBS 3) The numbers that are reported every night on the news of the casualties in Iraq can be cold and impersonal because every number represents a hero, many from our area. And every number is a story that deserves to be told. CBS 3's Larry Mendte relates the story of Corporal Stephen McGowan - the beanie baby soldier. There are people in this world who can create a ray of hope in our darkest hour of despair. Stephen McGowan, 26, joined the army in the tsunami of emotion that flooded this country after 9/11. "For him protecting the nation...