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...Buchanan] was against NAFTA and believes that our borders should be protected--if need be by the military," said retired Master Sergeant Lionel L. Leblanc, a 30-year veteran of the US Air Force...
...come suddenly. It can sneak up from behind, directed by the cross hairs of a sniper's scope. It can clasp travelers in the muddy embrace of a collapsing mountain road. Or it can detonate from below--which is what happened at 3:45 p.m. last Saturday when Sergeant Donald Dugan, 38, of Belle Center, Ohio, reportedly manning a checkpoint near Tuzla, stepped to the side of the road and was killed by a land mine...
...comic exasperation with a world of slow learners, he takes teacher Glenn Holland through three decades of Americana, from Vietnam to 1995. Holland has a wife (Glenne Headly), a deaf son and, it turns out, a vocation for helping the young understand themselves through music. He becomes their drill sergeant, father confessor, patron saint. As the years pass, his students follow their stars while he, a frustrated composer, pours his ambition into them. It's the ambitious teacher's tragedy: your kids move on, you stay...
TASZAR, HUNGARY: Reuters is reporting that a U.S. Army sergeant assigned to Operation Joint Endeavor died of an apparent heart attack at Taszar Air Base in Hungary on Thursday. According to the Pentagon, Clement Southall, 39, of Virginia Beach, Va., experienced nausea and breathing difficulties in his quarters at the base late last night...
...Tuzla one morning, the 3rd Platoon of Bravo Company conducts its first patrol away from one of the 325th Airborne Combat Team's outposts. Smolje, 5, thumps the flak jacket of Sergeant Brian Hutchens, chatters excitedly and touches the M-16 rifle while trying to mouth the sound of gunfire. The boy follows the troops, in their Kevlar body armor and laden with ammunition, over the rugged, icy landscape. The soldiers walk in a tactical road march, staggered on either side of the trail and leaving 10 meters between each...