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GLASGOW, Scotland (CP) - The weary captain and crew of the stricken HMCS Chicoutimi told tales of heroism, fear and survival Monday in their first public recounting of the fire aboard their sub, with some expressing wonderment that they lived to tell of
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SACRAMENTO -- They were at a seaside bungalow when the Indian Ocean swelled unexpectedly and roared mercilessly onto land. The invading currents swept Laura Wales in a swirl of debris, but somehow she survived.
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Ansil L. Saunders speaks carefully into the camera, describing the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when he stood on the deck of a ship at the entry to Pearl Harbor.
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HILLA, Iraq -- Hours before getting killed the way he feared most, Capt. Brian S. Freeman looked up and smiled when Abu Ali dropped by his office.
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When civilian officials couldn't get a grip on Hurricane Katrina's devastation, it was Lt. Gen. Russel Honore who took charge, leading federal troops to help rescue thousands still stranded in New Orleans days after the storm.
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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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DETROIT _ Lindsey Hunter wouldn't talk about it. Flip Saunders insisted he hadn't thought about it _ and looked like he wanted to catch the next plane out of the interview session.  Hunter and Saunders are two of the nicest men in the NBA.
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Just before Christmas, an Army captain named Brian Freeman cornered Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) at a Baghdad helicopter landing zone. The war was going badly, he told them. Troops were stretched so thin they were doing tasks they never dreamed of, let alone...
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Crew members of the Canadian submarine which burst into flames under the North Atlantic last week have described the &#39;brutal&#39; fire which filled the vessel with choking fumes and caused the death of one of their colleagues.
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FOR five days the crippled submarine struggled against the Atlantic as its Canadian crew battled to bring it to safety after an accident which killed one of them and brought huge embarrassment to the British military establishment.
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Accounts from the survivors of an ordeal that killed about 50 people stranded at sea have gripped the Dominican Republic.
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For some Americans, weary of war in Iraq and uncertain about the future, the race horse Barbaro's fight for life was a welcome tale of hope in the face of adversity.
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A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has revealed how he saw two prisoners die at the hands of their American captors, before making a plea for his release in the first letter from a serving prisoner at the camp to be made public.
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FORT HOOD, Texas -- An Iraqi civilian testified yesterday that he and his cousin were forced at gunpoint into the murky Tigris River and that US soldiers laughed while the two struggled against the current.
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The body of fallen Canadian submariner Chris Saunders has arrived home, in Halifax. A casket draped with the Canadian flag was carried to a waiting hearse by seven pall bearers, one of them Saunders&#39; best friend.
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BILOXI, Miss. -- He doesn't seem the type to rattle easily. A gravel-voiced retired seaman with piratical swagger, Jim DeSilvey survived Katrina's 25-foot storm surge here by tying one end of an electrical cord around his waist and the other around a utility pole.
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The Quincy Patriot  A PRAISEWORTHY ACT.  Peter Falcon, of Cohasset, Mass. during the late terrible storms, saved the lives of eleven shipwrecked seamen.