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WITH EXPLOSIONS AND GUNFIRE ECHOING IN THE distance, the Marines in the observation post in downtown Ramadi know they are at war. They're just not sure who--or where--the enemy is. In restive Iraqi cities like Ramadi, the U.S. campaign to deny sanctuary to the insurgents consists of...
During a brief lull, a Marine in a house near the now disabled vehicles runs into the street and pulls a boy from the truck, carrying him over his shoulder back into the house. Inside, four Marines tend to the sobbing boy, who has been shot in the shin and...
Two more Marines pull a semi-conscious older man - not the boy's father - from one of the cars. His shirt soaked with blood, he's been shot in the jaw, the lower left side of his face torn apart. Lance Corporal Nathaniel Bitsui, having just tended to the boy...
Reflection will come later; the battle is still raging. The next move, says Wiley, "is we go toward the ambush, to pick a fight. They started it; we're going to finish it." But word comes that the insurgents have dispersed, melting away before the showdown the Marines so desperately...
It was hardly the biggest or most dramatic battle of this war, and wasn't reported anywhere in the news media the next day. It was simply one more day of bravery and tragedy, one more step in the Marines' ongoing education in the confusion that marks this phase of...