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Larry Kay will never forget the night of the white cloud. On Jan. 20, 1991, three days after the Gulf War had started, Kay was dozing in an armchair at his construction battalion's camp in Saudi Arabia, more than 100 miles from the Kuwaiti border. At 3 a.m. an exploding Scud missile jolted him awake. Before Kay had time to clamp on his gas mask, the acrid smell of ammonia assaulted his lungs, and he watched a whitish gray cloud drift over the camp. Says he: "Right after that, people started getting sick...
Members of the battalion developed large red blotches on their hands and arms. Within a week, Kay felt tired almost all the time. Since then he has suffered chronic diarrhea, aches in all his joints and has difficulty breathing -- symptoms that have bedeviled many of the Seabees who served with Kay in the Persian Gulf. "These guys have been miserable for the past two years, and they weren't having any of these problems before that," says Charles Jackson, a physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tuskegee, Alabama. Last month, after running many tests on Kay and researching...
...White person committed an armed robbery (and I am sure that some do) I doubt that white people, Harvard-educated or otherwise, would be arbitrarily and embarrisingly interrogated on the street by a battalion of officers. That would be some outcry, some condemnation. That would not be just. But, for us, it was just another day in the life. Roger Fairfax...
...Miller has come back for the cat. The flames are only a few feet away. They look like something alive -- a platoon of flames, no, a battalion, marching across the brush toward the house Miller has lived in for five years in the El Morro Beach trailer park on the outskirts of Laguna Beach, California. His wife evacuated their trailer hours earlier, but when Miller heard the cat was here, he returned, hiking two miles when the police forced him to get out of his car. Now he can see the fire heading for his house, and not a fire...
...must also say a few words for the 3rd Ranger Battalion. As you well know, I love this. Despite how we ((soldiers)) all fight and mess with each other, there is a bond here that you have to be a part of to understand. I am very confident in the leadership of the 3rd Ranger Battalion. We are the best...