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Amidst the bustling traffic on what is known as the “JFK bridge,” it is easy to overlook two plaques that dedicate the structure to Nicholas Longworth Anderson, a graduate of Harvard in 1858 and soldier in the Civil War. His son hoped the bridge would be “an ever present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater.” Similarly, Soldiers Field, where student athletes practice every day, was named in honor of Civil War veterans...
...Kurds' most important achievement has been to keep their region free of Iraq's insurgency and sectarian warfare, thanks to their army of 70,000 peshmerga soldiers. Not a single American soldier has been killed in Kurdistan since the start of the war in Iraq, and there hasn't been a major terrorist attack in Arbil since June...
...there are no peace negotiations on the immediate agenda. Indeed, the most intense - if indirect - bargaining under way right now involves Hamas and Israel, over the list of the Palestinian prisoners Israel will be required to release in exchange for the return of Corporal Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier seized last summer on the Israeli side of the Gaza border. Israel is balking at Hamas's inclusion on its list of men Israel says have blood on their hands; Hamas is saying that there won't be a deal if they're removed from the list...
...Krepinevich, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, "because in nine to 12 months we will have lost the war." Those are grim words coming from a retired Army officer and West Point graduate, but they raise an important concern: No one wants to be the last soldier to die for a losing cause...
...that point, Lozano says, that he saw the headlights of a Toyota Corolla coming through the mist. Lozano says he immediately turned on his extremely high wattage flashlight and aimed it at the driver signaling him to stop. He says a soldier in the other Humvee also flashed a green laser pointer at the driver. But, according to Lozano, the car did not reduce its speed. Lozano says his spotlight signal had proven effective in either stopping or turning around all other vehicles that night. When the vehicle passed the warning line and did not stop, Lozano says the soldiers...