Despite Losing His Legs in Iraq, Hanson GI Moving Ahead With His Life
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The first anniversary of losing both his lower legs in a bomb explosion in Iraq may seem like an unlikely cause for celebration, but Hanson native Brian Fountaine is happy, grateful for all his family and friends, and getting on with his life. He marked the date he calls his ''alive day'' Friday.
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In the blur of smoke and blood after a bomb blew up under his Humvee in Iraq, Sgt. Tawan Williamson looked down at his shredded leg and knew it couldn't be saved. His military career, though, pulled through.
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A U.S. Army medic jailed for desertion after refusing to return to Iraq is on a mission to tell young Americans about the grim realities of war before they join the military.
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Before he flew off to Iraq this week to take command of U.S. forces there, Gen. David H. Petraeus conducted one last mission here on the home front -- this one on Capitol Hill.
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He was a stern-faced sniper &amp;#151; and a soft-hearted Marine who handed out candy to kids in Iraq. He was a warrior who wrote poetry about life and death.
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America's presence in Iraq is moving into its 22nd month, a time that has been alternately frustrating and fulfilling to the young men and women who are far from home and far from done with their mission.
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U.S. troops have recovered personal effects of a U.S. Marine who was once feared beheaded by Iraqi insurgents after disappearing from his unit, U.S. officials said.
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In a pep talk to US troops ahead their invasion of Fallujah on Sunday, the senior enlisted Marine in Iraq, Sgt. Major Carlton Kent drew inspiration from great Marine triumphs of the past.
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Kirk Johnson is devoted to helping Iraqis resettle in the US. Hundreds, faced with death threats, are still waiting.
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Mohammed Rasoul, a 12-year-old Iraqi boy whose right leg was blown off during a car bomb attack, gingerly stands on his new prosthetic limb and then struggles to walk using parallel bars to help with his balance.
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LANDSTUHL, Germany -- Marine Staff Sergeant Samuel J. Mortimer wore two bent dog tags on a chain around his neck, stared at a photograph of a gaping gunshot wound to his left elbow, and expressed a burning desire to return to Iraq.
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Pursuing the insurgents is hard enough. But Iraq's top general has to walk a difficult line of battling militias without alienating their political leaders
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JACKSON, Mississippi What does it take for a man like Staff Sergeant Michael Butler - a 24-year veteran of the US Army and the reserves who was a soldier in the Gulf war and a reserve called up to fight in the current war in Iraq - to risk everything by
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As head of the Junior ROTC program at Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge, Gunnery Sgt. Lester James had to tell his cadets last month that one of their own, a 2002 graduate, had been killed in Iraq.
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As David Matsuda tells it, he's probably the last person you'd expect to see in a U.S. military uniform climbing out of an armored vehicle in Iraq.
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IRBIL, Iraq -- He was promised a straight shot to heaven and 72 maidens to wait on him once he got there, but Hoshir Sabir Hasan was not ready to die.
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Cynthia Burks doesn't just talk about supporting her country's troops serving in Iraq.