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...same as having your minister suggest that God must have quite a plan for your life or he wouldn't have saved it, as a pastor told Genelle Guzman-McMillan, the last survivor pulled from the hellfire. We all may want to be closer to our families, but consider Sergeant Randel Perez, who met his firstborn son on Christmas Eve by borrowing a commando's laptop and grabbing the satellite link from Afghanistan to visit the hospital website. "I'm sorry I couldn't be there," he told the image on the screen softly, over and over...
...fellow infantrymen from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Some chattered about the fight to come, while others managed to catch a last-minute nap. Perez was far away, hugging a baby he had never met. It was early March, and the 30-year-old staff sergeant had seen only a grainy Internet picture of his only son, Ramiro, born just 10 weeks before. Perez wondered what Ramiro was doing. He wondered what would happen if he never got to see the boy, then stuffed that thought someplace way down deep...
...boys, Forest, 10, and Luke, 8, climbing ladders and scaffolding on the site where he was building a new house in Pomona, N.Y. Doug Ingram, a graphic artist in Decatur, Ga., whose wife Karen is an attorney, potty trained his son Nathan, 4, by acting like "a drill sergeant," he says. "We had potty-training boot camp. Once I sensed Nathan was ready, I enforced a 48-hour media blackout: no video games, no TV, just potty. He was trained in 48 hours...
...unclear how much fighting the three Afghanistan vets actually saw. One, Sergeant First Class Brandon Floyd, 30, who police say shot his wife to death and then killed himself on July 19, served with the elite and secretive Delta Force from November to January, the most intense months of fighting. Another sergeant first class, Rigoberto Nieves, who allegedly started the spate of killings in early June, was assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group. He was deployed to Afghanistan from mid-March until just two days before he also shot his wife and himself, according to authorities...
...other two alleged killers were not fresh from combat. Master Sergeant William Wright led investigators to his wife's strangled corpse on July 19. He had gone to Afghanistan in March with the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, a unique unit that helps countries rebuild after war. Civil Affairs folks usually spend more time talking than shooting. The fourth alleged killer, Sergeant Cedric Griffin, who is accused of stabbing his wife nearly 50 times, had never been deployed to Afghanistan or anywhere else. He is an Army cook...