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COMMENTS: Remember Iraq
CBS' Mark Strassmann reminded us of the time when Iraq was still a staple of the nightly newscasts. He replayed videotape of fighting in Ramadi last April at the entrance to a Marine Corps barracks. A truckbomb loaded with 2,000 lbs of explosives tried to wipe out a platoon of 50. "The tape showed an Iraqi policeman had time to run. He lived. They died," narrated Strassmann, referring to a pair of sentries who halted the truck in its tracks, setting off the bomb. Jordan Haerter of Virginia and Jonathan Yale of Long Island were both awarded the Navy Cross posthumously.
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