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BAGHDAD, June 25, 2007 – Army Sgt. 1st Class Adin Salkanovic won’t spend a full 15 months in Iraq like the rest of the soldiers in his unit. Still, he knows all too well about the sacrifices of war. Army Sgt. 1st Class Adin Salkanovic points out gunner positions to Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of Multinational Corps Iraq, on the roof of Patrol Base Shakarat in Iraq's Diyala province, June 20, 2007. Salkanovic, of the 1st Cavalry Division’s Troop B, 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, volunteered to rejoin his unit in Iraq after...

U.S. Army Sgt. Kareena Lechner Soldier rejoins unit after surviving suicide bomb blast. By U.S. Army Spc. Lee Elder 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment BAQUABAH, Iraq, Jan. 23, 2006 — After being wounded in a suicide bomb blast, a U.S. soldier said there was never any question if she would rejoin her fellow soldiers, just when. Sgt. Kareena Lechner, assigned military police duties with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, was among six soldiers injured Aug. 23 when an Iraqi with a fake I.D. entered the dining facility at the Provincial Joint Communication Center in...

<p>SAN DIEGO (AP) - When Marine Maj. Hal Sellers left for the war in Iraq, there were no guarantees that he would come home, or that his infant son Dillon would be there if he did.</p> <p>The boy was born with an inoperable heart defect and needed a transplant to survive. His father left him with a prayer.</p>

U.S. Rejoins U.N. 'Rights Commission'NewsMax.com Wires and NewsMax.comTuesday, April 30, 2002 UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Economic and Social Council on Monday returned the United States to the so-called Human Rights Commission, from which it had been unexpectedly dumped last year. The return came, according to the U.S. Ambassador to ECOSOC Sichan Siv, when the Western European and Others Group by acclamation approved Washington along with Austria, Germany and Ireland. They were elected to three-year terms beginning in 2003. "We are very pleased that we are back on the commission," said Siv. "Human rights is a corner stone of U.S....