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Cons: Generic and impersonal. Right on Soldiers?? Field Road...
Last Friday marked the tenth anniversary of the Battle of the Black Sea, a day-long episode of urban warfare in Mogadishu, Somalia, that claimed the lives of 18 American troops and more than 500 hundred Somali militiamen. On Oct. 3, 1993, a team of U.S. special operations soldiers??mainly from Delta Force and the Army Rangers—was airdropped into the city’s volatile Bakara Market neighborhood. Their assignment: to capture two prominent lieutenants of Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. What followed was, as Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden notes...
Still, many (including this author) prefer to cling to the legend of a heroic general who, after enduring the heat of battle, was inspired to write a bugle call to honor his soldiers?? feats. The melody certainly has the somber yet proud ring of a composer who had been bruised but not beaten. Even when played at funerals today, it is not a completely mournful tune. The way the notes dip down in the second to last set of “da, da, da,” only to come back up and end with...
...also asked his brother to support all soldiers??regardless of what he thinks of U.S. foreign policy...
...personal contact with the soldiers, but also dependent upon them for their physical safety, it is inevitable that they will not feel comfortable criticizing the actions of the troops, even when this criticism is justified. The reporters have taken on the role of a friend trying to explain the soldiers?? plight, rather than an unbiased observer seeking to critically analyze their conduct. When such luminaries as Geraldo Rivera and Oliver North are sent to provide objective coverage on what will be our generation’s defining struggle, journalistic integrity comes under fire that is as unremitting...