‘Man Down’: When One Bullet Alters Everything NY Times a must read

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Sergeant Leija :patriot:

:cry:

How many more George, how many?

Our soldiers continue to die, work, get wounded, and mourn now that
we are smack dab in the middle of a civil war.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/world/middleeast/29haifa.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=7503a1d4dbac31a6&ex=1327726800&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


< And as with so many days here, a bullet changed everything.

It started at 9:15 a.m.

“Help!” came the shout. “Man down.”

“Sergeant Leija got hit in the head,” yelled Specialist Evan Woollis, 25, his voice carrying into the
apartment with the Iraqi family. The soldiers from the sergeant’s platoon, part of the Third Stryker
Brigade Combat Team, rushed from one apartment to the other. >