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Wechsler secretly decided to leave the army. On the same weekend that he received the packet, Wechsler left his army station and jumped into the Danube, swimming across to the Soviet zone on the other side...
...been a crappy day, but an instructive one. A heavily armed gas station, homicidally angry tribesmen and a growing headache for the U.S. Tikrit has always had the reputation as a nasty place for outsiders, and I'm beginning to understand...
...This morning we sped along the road back toward Tikrit. I dozed a little, no longer looking for dangers all along the road, until we suddenly saw figures running away from a large gas station, and heard long bursts of automatic fire. My driver Karim, who had not fully recovered from the previous day, saw other cars turning in front of us, did a U-turn and floored the gas. I forced him to stop and we checked the situation with oncoming vehicles...
...tribe that owned the gas station had been exasperated by outsiders - Kurds, apparently - taking fuel at gunpoint without payment. The tribe had called in reinforcements and opened fire on suspected looters. They would let us go by, we were told, but would shoot anybody trying to get into the station. A well-armed checkpoint waved us by with salutations just outside the gas station. Twenty or so men with automatic rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades waved from the ditch where they had taken up positions. We drove on past the usual sights along the Tikrit road: a missile...
...Morgalis and not great fielding behind him, and an ump out there who missed a few calls,” Walsh said. “And in games like that, you need athletes who can put the ball in play. If you’re swinging and missing playing station to station baseball, it’s going to be hard to get runs...