Death or Glory Part II of IV

The intended target in an ambush never knows when it's over. Yesterday's ambush, which killed two soldiers and wounded three others, is a case in point. Once the Brits had dealt with the immediate aftermath of the ambush--setting up security, calling in air support, tending to the wounded and getting EOD in to deal with the remaining dozens of bombs--our convoy still had its mission objective. So we put the disabled vehicles in tow and continued our ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
2.7
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The piece provides some inside views of life and death as soldiers in the Iraq occupation. In this war, "glory" seems a slightly uninformed word for the title. It has the voyeurism of war without showing the negative effects.

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