I just got back from my friend's house. I fixed the computer in no time. We ate. I spent the rest of the afternoon playing with their two year old daughter. Kaitlyn (I'm not spelling it right). She like holding your hands and walking up your legs to do a flip. She just gets the biggest kick out of that. It was fun.
It's times like this that I want to have kids.
Tillman
This sounds just bad. I know there are confusing situations in combat. I've never even been close to being under that kind of stress. I play first person shooters. My life is not on the line. I still find myself and buddies in the same safe, warm, well fed room, to be in complete agreement on two diametrically opposite plans of action after discussing it for ten minutes. It doesn't take much for people to loose touch with the plan. Even the relatively minor stress of playing a video game can teach you that lesson.
| It
took the Army a month to change the record to show that Tillman, the
Arizona Cardinals defensive back who gave up a $3.6 million contract to
become an Army Ranger, was killed last April not by Afghan guerrillas
but by his Ranger colleagues. Even then, the statement by Lt. Gen. Philip R. Kensinger Jr., head of the Army's Special Operations Command, gave few specifics of the corporal's death and implied that he was trying to suppress enemy fire when he "probably died as a result of friendly fire." ... Tillman's group moved toward the north-south ridge to face the canyon, and Tillman took another Ranger and an Afghan ally down the slope. "As they pulled alongside the ridge, the gunners poured an undisciplined barrage of hundreds of rounds into the area Tillman and other members of Serial One had taken up positions," the Post said Army investigators concluded. It said the gunner handling the platoon's only .50-caliber machine gun fired every round he had. The first to die was the Afghan, whom the Americans in the canyon mistook for a Taliban fighter. Under fire, Tillman and almost a dozen others on the ridge "shouted, they waved their arms, and they screamed some more," the Post said. "Then Tillman `came up with the idea to let a smoke grenade go.' As its thick smoke unfurled, `This stopped the friendly contact for a few moments,'" a Ranger was quoted as saying. Assuming the friendly fire had stopped, the Ranger said, he and his comrades emerged and talked with each other, the Post reported. "Suddenly, he saw the attacking Humvee move into `a better position to fire on us.' He heard a new machine gun burst and hit the ground, praying, as Pat Tillman fell," the Post reported. The Ranger said Tillman had repeatedly screamed out his name and shouted for the shooting to stop, the Post said. He and others waved their arms, only attracting more fire. Tillman was shot repeatedly by rifles, finally succumbing to the machine gun. Early in the firing, the Post said, the driver of one of the Serial Two vehicles pulled out of the canyon and recognized the parked U.S. Army vehicles in front of him. "The driver shouted twice: `We have friendlies on top!' ... Then he yelled several more times to cease fire, he recalled. "`No one heard me.'" |
Lost Bomb
Oh, here we go.
| Police
at Paris' top airport lost track of a passenger's bag in which plastic
explosives were placed to train bomb-sniffing dogs, police said
Saturday. Warned that the bag may have gotten on any of nearly 90
flights from Charles de Gaulle, authorities searched planes upon
arrival in Los Angeles and New York. ... A "momentary lack of surveillance" led to the bag being lost on a conveyor belt carrying luggage from check-in to planes. ... "Indeed, it's possible that someone will have a surprise when he opens his bag." |
Blockquotes
Is any one out there confused by the gray boxes? They are block quotes. I'm trying to remember to put the link to the original story in the lower right hand corner. Any suggestions? Too many quotes? More of anything, lesss of something?
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