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...course, had Lehman hit out of the bunker to within eight feet of the flagstick, as did Lyle, or had his pulled shot skirted the bunker on the left, as it came within inches of doing, he might not have to live with the criticism that shall inevitably come. [Just ask Chip Beck...
...fusillade increased, the Rangers ripped up the bulletproof Kevlar mats from the floor of Wolcott's Black Hawk to fashion a makeshift bunker. The shield, however, provided only the barest protection, as Master Sergeant Scott Fales, 36, swiftly discovered. An Army special-forces medic who has saved 88 lives during his career, Fales was working on several wounded men when he felt himself slammed to the street. A bullet had ripped through his leg. Hunkering down next to the wreckage, he quickly bandaged the wound and then resumed tending his comrades...
Sergeant Jacques Beaulieu and 10 fellow Canadian blue berets were manning a checkpoint and bunker at a bridge on the recently opened road between Sarajevo and Visoko, 20 miles northwest of the Bosnian capital. Seven feet away was a Serbian checkpoint; across the valley, about 100 yards off, other Canadians were posted near a similar post manned by Muslim troops of the Bosnian army. With minor variations, the arrangement is common along the battle lines throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina...
...command. Angered by the loss and fueled by slivovitz, the plum brandy that is ubiquitous here, the remaining Serbs turned on the Canadians. "There were about four guys," said Petrokilis. "They ordered two of our guys out of the checkpoint and the other nine out of the bunker. Everyone was taken outside in a group. None of our guys knew what the - Serbs were saying, but their gestures were aggressive and angry. They fired to the left and to the right of our troops. I can't in all good conscience say it was a mock execution -- there wasn...
Flat landscape aside, Boston is a great place to take long rambling walks. One of my favorites is through Charlestown and across the bridge into the North End and Haymarket. It's difficult to be an American History concentrator and not find this area fascinating. The Bunker Hill monument even allows me the rare Boston privilege of climbing a hill, something for which I occasionally get nostalgic. The Hill also puts everything into proper historical perspective: Forget the battle itself; at the time the monument was built, Seattle was barely a village...