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From: jen_m  Staff 1/11/2008 4:02 pm 
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What's it like being a soldier in Iraq? This is how Staff Sgt. Anthony Kelly of Alpha Company described it in an email back home in 2005:

"Patrol in an unarmored humvee is a little like this: Imagine rolling down the street at sixty miles per hour in a twelve ton freight car, equipped with a device (the fifty cal) that spits hundreds of pointy metal bricks at a couple of thousand feet per second.

Now imagine some yokel taking pot shots at you with the nearest weapon of opportunity, or planting a bomb for you to run over, or planting one in a car that he tries to drive into the side of your humvee (killing himself in the process)."

 
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