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Fear, when set loose, can turn to fury; by nightfall there was no counting how many pictures and statues and paintings of Saddam had been stabbed and stomped and torched. In fact, that was how the 3/4 Battalion of the 7th Marines began their day: at the abandoned military compound where they had spent the night, a few took a sledgehammer to a mural of Saddam. "I hit him once for each Marine that died and once for each of my family members back home," said Lance Corporal Garfield Shealy. "He's the reason why I'm not with them...
Finnigan, deployed with the Third Battalion of the Fifth Marine Regiment, left for Iraq in February with his application to HBS in the mail...
Cindi Finnigan, Joe’s mother, said an e-mail network of friends and family with soldiers in the battalion has become her primary source of information. She sometimes hears about her son’s location only from journalists embedded with the 3/5. She’s had almost no direct contact with him since his February 7 deployment...
...deeply moved by "An American Family Goes to War" [COVER STORY, March 24]. I give married battalion commanders Laura and Jim Richardson a lot of credit for being able to go and serve in the Middle East even though their 14-year-old daughter Lauren is home in the U.S. I admire the Richardsons for their dedication to our country. And Lauren's courage touched my heart. I am just a few years older than Lauren, and I cannot fathom the emotions she is feeling. She must be a very brave young girl. The Richardson family must have a strong...
DIED. LUCIAN ADAMS, 80, World War II hero; in San Antonio, Texas. As a U.S. Army sergeant whose company had been wiped out in France, Adams single-handedly charged forward to kill nine Germans, eliminate three machine guns and reopen a severed supply line to an isolated American battalion--for which he won the Medal of Honor. Later, as a benefits counselor for the Veterans Administration, he never mentioned that he had been in combat...