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Lieut. Brad Maroyka, commander of Charlie Company's 1st Platoon, was watching his two squads fire at al-Qaeda targets from his position about 150 yards north of the command post. "We've got enemy moving up on the west side," Maroyka radioed company commander Captain Nelson Kraft, who was back near the command post. "We are destroying them, but they are returning fire...
...explosion had taken out the leaders of the 1st Platoon. With both the lieutenant and sergeant out of commission, command fell on the shoulders of Perez, the senior soldier left standing. "Sergeant Perez!" Kraft yelled over the roar of war to Perez, around 75 yards away. "You're now the platoon leader...
Thirty minutes after the devastating mortar blast, with the sun rising overhead, 1st Platoon's wounded had taken cover in what some called Hell's Half Pipe, a natural trench, already protecting the command post, that shielded them from al-Qaeda's eyes. By chance, the enemy fire kept them where they wanted to be, guarding the escape paths from the southern end of the valley that al-Qaeda might want to use. But the Afghans, repelled by rocket and mortar attacks elsewhere in the valley, never showed. All the searching and destroying would have to be done...
...scientists found a full skeleton farther down, a 5-ft. 4-in. male whose location and orientation in the grave may indicate high importance. Balancing on the leg bones, says expedition leader Richard Freund of the University of Hartford, was a pot in the style of the 1st century A.D., which places the find in the right era. "There are 1,212 burials at Qumran, but there's only one like this," says Freund. He thinks the bones belong to the Teacher and, therefore, perhaps are the Baptist's. Others are skeptical, pointing out that the skeleton has a head...
...July 1] is that the futurists deny or ignore the clear time statements of the Bible. The last days were simply the last days of the old Jewish covenant, which ended forever in A.D. 70. Preterists take God's word to mean what it says, leaving it in its 1st century context. More information is available at www.lighthouseworldministries.com JOHN ANDERSON, PRESIDENT Lighthouse World Ministries Sparta...