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...samba in McCoy's head is overtaken by a different beat--the whump of an artillery round. Suddenly, the courtyard where the infantrymen have assembled to make the charge across the bridge is black with raining oil and shrapnel and smoke. Marines are shouting, hitting the ground, running for cover. The round has slammed into an amphibious assault vehicle just five feet away from me, landing between the gunner's turret and the driver's hatch. Marines pull injured buddies away from the smoking wreck. Blood mixes with oil on the vehicle's metal ramp. They cover bodies...
...kids, boys, were maybe 7 or 8 and had no place there. Bravo Company wasted them. Had to. Right when the fire fight was at its hottest, when maybe 100 guys were popping up across the rooftops firing AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, the boys bounced into the courtyard below the building where Bravo was spread out and attempted to retrieve an RPG dropped by a dead Iraqi. "It sounds terrible when you hear about this cold, away from the fight," says commander Lieut. Colonel Chris Holden. "We shot and killed children. But I accept full responsibility for that...
Within the peaceful courtyard of Adams House, there’s a protest going on. It’s as aesthetically pleasing as the manicured gardens, as community-oriented as the four enclosed walls of the House and as intellectually provocative as any of the discussions going on inside students’ rooms...
...building—planned as a building “on stilts,” with an open courtyard on ground level—was originally designed to rest on supports three stories high...
...courtyard above the facility will be restored with trees and landscaping, and associate dean for physical planning David A. Zewinski ’76 said truck traffic will be limited to Divinity Avenue...