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...demon finally compelled Weise to act also made him plan his assault. First he needed an arsenal and armor. He had only a .22-cal. weapon. So he used it to kill his grandfather Daryl Lussier, who was separated from the grandmother Weise lived with. Lussier was a veteran sergeant with the Red Lake police department. After shooting Lussier and his girlfriend Michelle Sigana, Weise stole his grandfather's .40-cal. handgun and 12-gauge shotgun. He strapped on Lussier's bullet-proof vest and grabbed his grandfather's keys to the Red Lake police car parked in the driveway...
Under a dim bedside lamp in a hospital ward in Landstuhl, Germany, 1st Infantry Division Specialist Shane Salter sobs for his dead sergeant, whose hand he clutched in a morgue in Iraq just five days earlier. At 22, Salter, from Walla Walla, Washington, is so young that he called 29-year-old Sergeant Kyle Childress "Grandpa." "He always took care of me," says Salter, who lost two fingers when his platoon burst into a bombmaker's house near Samarra one night and was met with a torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle...
...amputations. From within the trauma wards, Landstuhl's doctors and nurses have had a close-up view of the war's mayhem, almost as intense as in Iraq itself. After being wheeled through Landstuhl's doors one snowy morning in late January, Brent Jurgersen, 42, a first sergeant from Low Moor, Iowa, was rushed into an operating room, where surgeons amputated his left leg at the knee. The day before, as Jurgersen led his Humvee through a village near Samarra...
JAMES M. WHITE - SERGEANT FIRST CLASS, U.S. ARMY (RET.) - Tucson, Ariz...
Weeks after an anititank mine ripped his body apart, Sergeant Joey Bozik, 26, emerged from a coma to find himself surrounded by relatives and friends at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. As soon as he grasped the extent of his injuries, Bozik asked everyone but his fiancé to leave the room. Although he and Jayme Peters had spent only a few weeks in each other's presence--they met via e-mail while Bozik was stationed in Afghanistan--they had made plans for a life together filled with travel and outdoor activities. A gymnast and exercise-physiology student, Peters...