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| Iraq |
| Troops die rescuing injured child |
| 2003-05-10 |
| A Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Tigris river in northern Iraq yesterday, killing three US soldiers on board, the Pentagon confirmed. A fourth was injured. The helicopter, from the army's 4th Infantry Division, apparently crashed after hitting a power line near Samarra, a town between Baghdad and Tikrit. It was one of two sent to rescue an Iraqi child wounded in an explosion after ordnance went off outside Samarra. The helicopter carrying the child took off safely, but the other apparently snagged a wire. The three deaths bring the number of US troops killed in the Iraq war to 145. I can't think of anything more heroic than trying to save the life of a child. God bless these three men. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 From Stephen Ambrose - In the spring of 1945, around the world, the sight of a twelve-man squad of teenage boys, armed and in uniform, brought terror to people's hearts. Whether it was a Red Army squad in Berlin, Leipzig, or Warsaw, or a German squad in Holland, or a Japanese squad in Manila or Seoul of China, that squad meant rape, pillage, looting, wanton destruction, senseless killing. But there was an exception: a squad of GIs, a sight that brought the biggest smile you ever saw to people's lips, and joy to their hearts. Around the world this was true, even in Germany, even - after September 1945 - in Japan. This was because GIs meant candy, cigarettes, C-rations, and freedom. America had sent the best of her young men around the world, not to conquer but to liberate, not to terrorize but to help. This was a great moment in our history. |
| Posted by: Don 2003-05-10 23:52:03 |
| #4 I may be biased. I was a soldier, ditto my brother (Air Force, but that's almost the same thing), and my father and my uncles. But I have to say it, and I think I would anyway. The American soldier is God's noblest creation. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2003-05-10 18:40:03 |
| #3 Come on,Murat.Hero's giving all to save a child,give these Soldiers thier due. |
| Posted by: Raptor 2003-05-10 10:42:29 |
| #2 This is what it means to be an American Soldier. My condolences and prayers for the families. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-05-10 08:21:37 |
| #1 As I quoted from Pliny in my first letter home after the start of the war; "It is Godlike for Mortal to assist Mortal; and this is the way to Immortality". The Blessings of Heaven will rest upon those warriers. All continues to improve in Iraq. Peace out |
| Posted by: Bodyguard 2003-05-10 07:25:05 |