Word: combatative
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...Senator John McCain Republican of Arizona It is hard for people who have never seen combat to understand. Even for someone like me it's hard, because the kind of war I was involved in was antiseptic. I was in an airplane?you drop bombs, you see smoke, and you leave. It's different from being on the ground in the middle of the night with people trying to kill you. I can't question how he handled this. Everybody has to grapple with his own nightmares. I don't even know if he knows if he grappled with this...
...were also fighting villagers. These things don't take place in slow motion. I know Kerrey, and I think he's an upstanding citizen. It would be hard for me to accept that he cold-bloodedly killed villagers. He was a lieutenant on one of his first combat missions. There could have been an element of panic. If it went as he says?it was a confusing night and they were fired on?then his situation, as he told it, is justifiable. If they weren't fired on, then it's cold-blooded. Could they hear the cries of women...
...time. I had some nightmares. I had some friends who were killed. But the experience is not something that torments me. It disgusted me but didn't torment me. If I had killed women and children, I would imagine that would haunt me. In the brutality of combat, life is cheap. Then you come back to the civilian world, where life is precious. It's surreal. The only thing that kept me sane was reading Catch...
...book's finest storytelling occurs in the vivid descriptions of Bir Hakeim. Vastly superior in manpower and artillery, Rommel predicted that it would take him 15 minutes to crush the 3,700 men stationed there. Instead, combat raged for a bloody 15 days, the Legion holding out despite waning supplies and unbearable heat. As defeat seemed imminent, Koenig ordered a risky nighttime breakout through enemy lines. The book reaches its hair-raising climax with Travers at the wheel, Koenig at her side, speeding over dunes between firing tanks, and ultimately leading 2,400 men to safety...
...students said that voting in high school would also combat youth voter apathy while allowing them to participate in local government before leaving the city for college or careers...