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...Barbe had been told to expect one walking wounded, but as soon as the DUSTOFFS hit the ground, the waiting company brought out Maita, Talraas and a paratrooper who had been shot in the right kidney. But that wasn't Barbe's only surprise that morning. He knew these guys; this was his old brigade. The soldier with the gut wound was a friend of his, and was rapidly losing consciousness...
...Surgeon Major Mark Harris picks up the story: "It's a miracle that the soldier with the gut wound got to the hospital alive. If the medic hadn't arrived when he did, the guy would have perished within minutes...
...firecracker, Abernathy looked out to the walkway and saw that King had fallen. Only his feet were visible, one foot protruding awkwardly through the walkway's iron railing. Abernathy rushed out, stepping over his friend to kneel by his side. Blood was gushing from a fist-size bullet wound in King's right cheek. Tenderly cradling King's head, Abernathy patted his left cheek and tried to console him: "This is Ralph, this is Ralph, Martin, don't be afraid." Moments later, another King aide, Andrew Young, checked King's pulse and told Abernathy, "Ralph, it's all over." Still...
...high-stick, Harvard worked the puck around the zone. Moore pushed the puck to fellow senior Brett Nowak along the low boards. Nowak found sophomore defenseman Noah Welch open on the blue line, and he in turn passed down to Pettit near the top of the right circle. Pettit wound up and fired a hard slap shot on net that junior forward Tyler Kolarik got a piece of, and the game was tied 2-2 with less than 3 minutes to play in the period...
...Khalid, a 43-year-old Iraqi, won't give his last name for fear of reprisal if Saddam's regime survives. He has a bullet wound in his right calf. He says that five days before troops entered Iraq, Fedayeen forces came to the home of his extended family in Diwaniyah, kicked in the door and took all the men between the ages of 20 and 60. Khalid was later taken to Nasiriyah, where he and a ragtag group of some 40 civilians were handed old Kalashnikovs without ammunition and pushed in front of Iraqi soldiers as they faced down...