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...PULLED MY LEGS UP AS FAR AS I COULD TO GET AWAY FROM A STREAM OF TRACERS." --Edward Jeziorski A paratrooper with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Jeziorski, 23, was dropped into the inferno over Normandy...
...away from the thing, and tracers were coming up and through the silk. They were coming up just in strings. I can remember them being so close that I actually pulled my legs up as far as I could, my knee into my stomach, to get away from a stream of tracers. I slammed into the ground, and I was immediately pinned down by machine-gun fire. There was no way to raise up. Every time I tried to turn, the machine gun would open up. Every time I tried to move, there would be a burst. Apparently the great...
...Sadr's adherents use their intimate knowledge of the terrain to outwit the Americans. As supporters stream from Baghdad 90 miles south to Kufa for Friday prayers, U.S. troops finally manage to cut the road just outside the city. In response, locals begin flagging down approaching cars, warning drivers of the checkpoints ahead and showing them how to avoid the blockade by taking a circuitous side route. Later, when U.S. troops close the road between Kufa and Najaf, prayergoers snake around back streets, along dusty trails and through a massive garbage dump. The mounds of trash give cars almost perfect...
...private reviews among some in the room were less gushing. Some lawmakers checked e-mail on their BlackBerrys or read newspapers on their laps while Bush rambled "on and on and on with a stream-of-thought speech that lasted 35 minutes," groused a G.O.P. Representative, adding that the applause afterward was only "polite." Others were miffed that Bush took no questions--even though microphones had been set out in the audience for the lawmakers--and said nothing at all about the prison-abuse scandal. Instead, he pleaded for patience on the war with "the same boilerplate speech...
...Located on Morocco's Atlantic coast, the port of Essaouira was for many years a well-kept secret of 20th century bohemia. Rock stars Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix have wandered its 300-year-old streets, joining a steady stream of beats and backpackers who, in some cases, were drawn as much by the local kef as by Essaouira's cultural mélange of European, Berber and African influences...