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After witnessing the japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor as a dockworker in his native Hawaii, Al Chang joined the Army, got recruited as a cameraman and quickly became one of the country's best combat photographers. His most famous image, above, was of a U.S. soldier in the Korean War who, upon learning of a friend's death, broke down in another soldier's arms. Chang...
...along the streets, keeping low, chased by the sound of gunfire. Not far from where I was standing lies the body of Japanese photographer Kenji Nagai, shot dead by a soldier at point-blank range...
...prospect of eternal damnation is not the army's only problem. It is crippled by low recruitment and high desertion rates. Money is scarce, even for the regime's enforcers. I saw many troops carrying only rusting rifles. The soldier who killed Nagai was wearing flip-flops...
...This political drama opened on Sept. 26, when Limbaugh took a call from a U.S. soldier who decried the media’s coverage of the Iraq war and the “soldiers that come up out of the blue and spout to the media.” Limbaugh interjected, “The phony soldiers,” and the Democrats pounced...
...great show, but they failed to consider the context of Limbaugh’s comment. Limbaugh was referring to Jesse Macbeth, a man who claimed to have killed over 200 people in Iraq but who never made it out of basic training—in short, a phony soldier. When pressed by a caller on Sept. 28 to explain his use of the plural, Limbaugh cited Scott Thomas Beauchamp, whose stories of war crimes by U.S. soldiers were retracted by The New Republic. And regardless of whether Limbaugh employed perfect grammar, a literal reading of the transcript shows...