As their 19-ton armored Stryker tipped nose-first, then plummeted off a 30-foot cliff in Iraq, "I knew it was going to hurt -- a lot," Army Spc. Nick Vernon wrote. "That's when I grabbed Justin." In an e-mail he sent Monday to The Daily News, the Castle Rock native was modest about his role in pulling Sgt. Justin Little of Longview to safety. "I don't feel like I saved his life," he wrote. "We are all trained, and trained well. I did my job and everyone made it out alive." Vernon said that the six-man Stryker crew was in the...
