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...taken cover in what some called Hell's Half Pipe, a natural trench, already protecting the command post, that shielded them from al-Qaeda's eyes. By chance, the enemy fire kept them where they wanted to be, guarding the escape paths from the southern end of the valley that al-Qaeda might want to use. But the Afghans, repelled by rocket and mortar attacks elsewhere in the valley, never showed. All the searching and destroying would have to be done by the Americans...
...Qaeda and Americans trading bullets and bombs through the day and into the night. U.S. troops picked off the enemy one by one from the ground, while U.S. air power obliterated their havens from the sky. Amazingly, no American lives were lost in the southern end of the valley...
Shortly after nightfall, a pair of Black Hawk helicopters extricated Maroyka and the other seriously wounded men. As midnight approached, three CH-47s returned to the valley's southern tip. Perez wearily climbed up the ramp, where he ran into Grippe. "Are you sure we've got everybody?" Grippe yelled at him over the roar of the turbines. For the first time that day, Perez had his doubts. He scampered into the darkness and surveyed the area with his night-vision goggles one more time. Finding no Americans, he ran back to the chopper just before it lifted off. Maroyka...
...accustomed to the sound of his dad's voice. "I've told him why I wasn't here for his birth and how it was something that I just had to do as a soldier," Perez says. Someday he'll tell what he did in the Shah-i-Kot Valley to earn the Bronze Star that sits on his dresser. "I'll tell him war isn't as glamorous as some people think it is," Perez says. "And I'll tell him I hope he doesn't join the infantry...
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