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How do you recognize freedom on the street if you've never met her before? The people of Baghdad got to dance and kiss Marines, argue politics in the park and pray in a mosque that had been padlocked for years. But maybe liberation feels real only when it includes...
Fear, when set loose, can turn to fury; by nightfall there was no counting how many pictures and statues and paintings of Saddam had been stabbed and stomped and torched. In fact, that was how the 3/4 Battalion of the 7th Marines began their day: at the abandoned military compound...
By the time the 3/4 Battalion arrived downtown at Paradise Square, Iraqis were picking yellow flowers from the gardens and handing them over for the Leathernecks to stick in their helmets. Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy saw the large picture of Saddam above the entranceway to the Palestine Hotel. "I...
The road to central Baghdad lies across a partly blown iron bridge. The bridge is unable to support tanks, so the Marines will have to take it on foot, which will let them be the first U.S. forces to hold ground in the suburbs of Baghdad.
The 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...