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Alerted by the reconnaissance as to where the next U.S. thrust would come, they came out in force to stop it. For a few minutes, it seemed that every window along the ridge was spitting out machinegun bullets. Hoping to keep collateral damage to a minimum, Battalion commander LTC Chris...
Over the next few hours, the battalion fired over 45 missiles into the apartment complex, almost all of them going directly through a window. By 9:00pm, it was a brave Iraqi who was willing to draw the attention of the deadly accurate TOWs, and enemy fire had almost completely...
But today there is congestion on this part of the river. The locks are too small to handle its 1,200-ft., 15-barge tows, and so they must be broken in half to go through the lock and then reassembled on the other side. "You want to keep moving...
In bygone days the job would have been not just daunting but preposterous. River towns still treasure tales of binging, brawling and murder among flatboatmen whose godlessness was a point of pride. The stereotype is outdated: massive consolidation hit the freight-barge business in the 1980s, and large firms like...
So many pop songs inhabit emotional extremes--the juice of ecstasy, the razor on the wrist of despair--that someone writing about the middle ground most of us occupy most of the time can sound like a pioneer of the everyday. Peters extracts muted poetry from lives that might seem...