Word: patrol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Across the city last week, thousands of bag-toting volunteers scoured streets and back alleys for litter. Others painted over graffiti and planted hundreds of red begonias. Freshly remodeled hotels stocked up on ethnic food; civic workers conducted courtesy classes for taxi drivers; and the police readied 125 new patrol cars for escort duty...
...week earlier, Saw Klee Moo was part of a 15-man reconnaissance patrol that was ambushed in the jungle by a six-man Burmese platoon. The Karens outnumbered the Burmese but, taken by surprise, didn't have time to seek cover. Saw Klee Moo and the others just froze and shot at the enemy, raking everything in sight with automatic fire. He doesn't remember how long he stood there, firing madly, but eventually the Burmese withdrew, dragging their wounded with them. It was the first time Saw Klee Moo had encountered the enemy face to face. Asked...
...hangs out with the other kids at Komura, doing chores and waiting for the orders of Lieut. Brown, 38, a Karen who lost his right leg to a mine ten years ago. His stump is covered by an intricate blue swirl of tattoos. Unable to go out on patrol, he trains the children and the volunteers from nearby villages. Brown insists that the children are not forced to fight, and he says he tries to keep them back. But, he acknowledges reluctantly, sometimes they do go to war. He adds that the children are mostly good fighters, but they...
...spent two years there, a witness to daily butcheries, and he endured them in a state of numbness. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978, he was sent to fight with the Khmer Rouge army. It was a new kind of terror, but he quickly got used to life on patrol in swampy jungles. Frightened the first time he fired a carbine, he grew adept at it and quickly graduated...
...fighting one another and the police. Gang violence is combat stripped of all the familiar rationales. It is the closest thing the U.S. has to battle within its borders, and many of the children emerge from the streets of Los Angeles more psychologically scarred than the young mujahedin who patrol the mountain passes of Afghanistan...