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...corner me. They don't want to talk about surfing, but I do. I know what they want, but I haven't allowed myself to be cornered in a long time.'' In 1968 Dave, a surfer from Laguna Beach, California, became a Lurp, which is to say a sergeant in a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol unit. These were said to be some of the baddest s.o.b.s of the war, and anyone who saw them then knew they did not suffer fools. They operated out where no one else went, and if you ever saw them in a civilized setting, they...
...fall and early winter of 1950, when temperatures dipped down to 30 degrees below zero. Sweaty feet in wet boots froze instantly; food supplies were vaguely flavored lumps of ice. The Marines kept their rifles combat ready by urinating on them, and limbered their machine guns with gasoline. A sergeant in Lieut. Colonel Raymond Davis' battalion ''reached down into the snow and pulled out of a hole a solid chunk of ice that was a Chinese soldier.'' When the officer asked if the man was dead, the sergeant replied, ''No, sir, his eyes are moving.'' As Marines who were there...
...death, Beethoven has fended off all contenders to World's Greatest Composer and shows no signs of losing his title. The latest crop of the champ's compact disks: Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos; Polonaise in C Major, Op. 89; ''Andante Favori.'' Artur Schnabel, piano, with Sir Malcom Sergeant conducting the London Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras (Arabesque, three CDs, sold separately). Schnabel, who died in 1951, was an unlikely cult hero. Physically, he was unprepossessing: a short, stocky man with a walrus mustache and stubby fingers that, when they were not at the keyboard, habitually clutched a cigar. Technically...
...They did come home together, just not the way we wanted.' JIM WAREING, director of New England Caring for Our Military, after the bodies of two U.S. soldiers--Army Sergeant Alex Jimenez and Private Byron W. Fouty--were discovered in Iraq a year after their abduction by insurgents...
Ultimately, though, the Marines of 1st Recon--despite changing, often contradictory orders--exceed society's expectations of them. The standout of Kill's ensemble is Alexander Skarsgard, as Sergeant Brad (Iceman) Colbert. He's fatherly to his men yet skeptical of his superiors; he's decent yet cynical; he's methodical in battle, yet he takes each civilian casualty to heart...