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  • Celebratory bullets fired by Iraqis into sky coming down on U.S. troops

    08/17/2003 3:47:35 PM PDT · by demlosers · 16 replies · 3,120+ views
    Stars and Stripes ^ | European edition, Sunday, August 17, 2003 | Scott Schonauer
    BAGHDAD, Iraq — Army Spc. Christiansen Cory was talking with another soldier when he felt something smack his forearm. “We were standing around and heard a pssssst,” he said. “It felt just like a big rock had been thrown at me.” But when Cory looked down, he discovered it wasn’t a rock that hit him. At his feet was a bullet from a Kalashnikov rifle. It was still warm. The round likely came from an Iraqi who fired it into the air in celebration of a wedding, the birth of a child, or, for nothing in particular. Every day, sometimes...