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Whiteside learned to shoot a gun as a teenager, rabbit hunting in Pine Bluff, Ark., during occasional visits by his father, a Navy veteran. Whiteside joined the Army in February 2001 after serving 45 days in jail because of unpaid traffic tickets. "It was the best thing that could have ever happened to me," he says. "I was locked up and couldn't do anything for my daughter. God opened my eyes and made me realize I wasn't doing anything with my life. In the military, I can't quit...
...dubbed him Sizzle instead, just to rib him, and the nickname stuck. That's how he signed his letters home from Baghdad. His early missives have the tone of a jokester writing to a friend, not to a worried mom back in Pine Bluff, Ark. They open with "Dear Chocolate"--his name for her--and include macho tales of his refusal to duck while under fire, followed by admonitions not to worry. He cracks jokes about how insurgents once lobbed rockets at his unit's base as the soldiers lay in bed. "My son," says Catherine, "has a weird sense...
...stay safe. There's an awkward silence, then she starts thumbing through the album again. She had looked forward to her son's coming home permanently, and now she will have two in harm's way. "I thought it was over." she says. "All over." --By Cathy Booth Thomas/Pine Bluff...
...students called their bluff by posting the documents,” said Slater...
...Baghdad. But now that stations like his are top targets for insurgents fighting the U.S. occupation, he says, "the challenge is bigger." A few men at his station wear borrowed U.S. body armor, but many have yet to get uniforms or the Glock pistols promised by the U.S. The bluff policeman, 46, claims the spiraling risk to men like him only "makes me stronger." But he's not sure his salary of about $100 a month--three times his former pay--is enough to justify putting his life on the line. "If I find a new job that pays better...