Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barracks when it called for Navy air help. Their position was close to an abandoned Cuban antiaircraft gun that still pointed toward the sky. From the air it looked like the intended target. "All of a sudden the world blew up," said Lieut. Scott Schafer, who was hit by shrapnel when the Corsair fired. Twelve paratroopers were wounded. As the plane banked for another strike, a ground officer reached the pilot by radio to warn it away...
...nervous. He leaned against his shiny black Mercedes-Benz with an aide, waving the letter he wished to deliver to the head of the country, whoever that was. One Soviet embassy official had been wounded. "It was not direct shooting," Nikolayev explained. "He was hit by a piece of shrapnel in the left shoulder. He is one of our new diplomats. We have problems. No light, no water. We have children, we have no telephone line, no telex. It is very difficult to contact who is running this country. I come here to ask who is. What...
...everywhere, many of them use their idle hours chiefly to write home. Seated at a picnic table, three beefy helicopter ground crewmen scribble side by side like overgrown schoolboys taking exams. One 19-year-old private writes regularly to his wife but has omitted any worrying incidents, including the shrapnel that hit his bunker a few weeks ago. "I tell her as little as possible," he says. "When I get home, I'll tell her the truth...
...Pastora Gómez, "Commander Zero," a hero of the revolution that overthrew Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979 and now a bitter opponent of the Sandinista government. Dozens of people were in the terminal at the moment of the attack, but only four people were injured, mostly by shrapnel and flying debris. One, a young military reservist, died the next day. Bertha Mayo, a waitress at the airport restaurant, was on her way to work when she saw the plane dropping its bomb. "When I arrived at the airport a few minutes later," she said, "the terminal building...
...mortar shells came cascading into the command tent where Staff Sergeant Alexander M. Ortega, 25, was getting batteries for radios. Just outside the tent, Second Lieut. Donald G. Losey Jr., 28, was running from one bunker to another, checking on his men. Both men were hit by shrapnel and died shortly thereafter. Fourteen other Marines were wounded before the fighting finally subsided...