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May 22, 2004
Of the many letters from
Of the many letters from our soldiers in Iraq this one particularly struck me. He's riding shotgun on a fuel convoy that was attacked on April 9. Excerpt:
...people in the buildings firing weapons at us. I looked off to the left at a frontage road and I saw nine cars in rows of three. There was a line of women in front of all the cars, and some of them had children with them. I thought they were just watching us get attacked, and then men started popping up behind them firing at us - they were using the women as shields!! It took me a second to realize that. They were standing on the hoods of the cars behind the women and children; it shocked the hell out of me. Then we started getting hit with small arms fire, which sounded like golf balls hitting metal. I started firing back at them but I couldn’t get passed the women; they were all I could hit, and they started falling down. The men turned around and ran back behind the cars to fire....
Read the whole thing
Posted by Tom at May 22, 2004 9:02 PM
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