Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell people that I'm not a professional politician. I was truly a soldier...
...most powerful theme has been the importance of family, of America as a big national family, and of reconciliation among warring forces abroad and hostile groups at home. He repeatedly tells the story of a young African-American soldier being interviewed just before going into battle in Kuwait. The soldier was asked whether he was afraid. "He said," Powell relates proudly, "'I am not afraid. And the reason I'm not afraid is that I'm with my family.' He looked over his shoulder at the other youngsters in his unit. They were white and black and yellow and every...
Said Binasa Sijercic, a nurse at the city's Kosevo hospital: "We have always lived in hope, but now I think freedom is just around the corner." Mirsad Curevac, a 31-year-old soldier, shouted, "We are winning!" On the first day of the offensive, he was a patient in the hospital when a Serb shell crashed through the room, severing the head of one patient and slicing the body of another in two. Even with his own head and hands bandaged from the blast, Curevac could not wait to rejoin his unit at the front, convinced that the Bosnian...
...sunny, and many were digging in the makeshift vegetable gardens that Sarajevans have taken to cultivating in whatever scrap of dirt they can find. Suddenly, a Serb shell lanced in, killing six people. "The Serbs always like to catch us at such moments," said Nenad Tupajic, 26, a soldier who was patrolling the Dobrinja line. "That's their way of taking revenge...
...experience, calling himself an "intelligence analyst and counterintelligence coordinator" with a top-secret clearance, and afterward the commander of two "special-warfare" brigades used to "train U.S. military in foreign warfare and tactics." However, judging from a summary of his service record provided by the Army and anecdotes from soldiers familiar with him, his claims seem inflated. He did attend the Army's intelligence school at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, but the introductory curriculum he would have taken was less suited to a high-level strategic thinker than to that person's secretary. Once back in Michigan...