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Defense - Intimate Killing

by Sydney J Freedberg Jr
Saturday, July 21, 2007


"Iguess I'm just one of the luckier people," Chris Morris, a captain in the Army Special Forces, said over the phone from his base in Afghanistan. "Gunfire does not bother me significantly. We shot at the enemy, killed them, and moved on-which you go over and over and over again in training, so it's pretty simple." n Capt. Morris was talking about the first, and worst, firefight in his career, a battle with Baathist holdouts clad as civilians-the first stirrings of the insurgency-after the fall of Baghdad in 2003.


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