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...place. There was an initial “time out” from all forms of personal and political conflict as we absorbed the enormity of what had happened, tended to those affected by the enormous death toll and made ourselves busy in order to feel safer. No recent event has so powerfully reminded us of the shortness and uncertainty of human life and the preciousness of our connections to our family and friends...
...Everybody up!" Abbott bellowed. "Get the hell up! We're moving!" The soldiers were scrambling for safer ground when another 15-lb. mortar round exploded amid them. The air filled with dirt, smoke, blood and screams. "Damn," thought Grippe, as he watched from his post. "I've got four or five dead guys now." But in wonder, he saw the smoke clear and all of his soldiers seem to rise from the dead. Their new ceramic-plate vests had kept them alive, but shrapnel had shredded many arms and legs. Eight of the 10 soldiers closest to the blast were...
...knew he would be mowed down if he tried. Instead he stood and began blazing away with his M-4 rifle. That forced the al-Qaeda fighters to take cover in the rocks several hun-dred yards away--and stop firing--as the wounded Americans limped to a safer spot. "He showed almost no concern for his body," says Sergeant Jeffrey Grothause, one of Perez's soldiers. "He's up there, and rounds are flying all around him, in between his legs, and he doesn't flinch. He keeps firing...
...better push Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table first. Advocates of a quick and decisive war counter that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can't be resolved right now, and therefore shouldn't be an obstacle to action, and, they say, the Middle East will actually be safer without Saddam around...
There's no way to solve global warming overnight. But it's the American way to accept the hard work of making our country strong and our environment healthy. That kind of leadership wouldn't just change the tone in Washington; it would secure a cleaner and safer future...