Soldier finds duty on tour
                   
denverpost.com     May 11, 2008            

For months, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon patrolled the downtrodden neighborhoods of Baqubah, where Sunni Muslim extremists had tried to create an Islamic caliphate. One day, he came upon a girl in an old, oversized wheelchair, blood crusted on the stumps where her legs had been. [read full story]                

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