the area is occupied by a major preserve. of the young generation tribes in their ancestors. where the mysterious of a good long world from the republic of russia. who was found goldman sachs is reported to have lost ninety eight percent of their money invested by the libyan government three d. has a crowd which is around that they've been told as part of the two thousand and eight financial crunch things but i think i'll put kentucky huge cloud of it sure as it's called the sanctions which it's down to it's inside. the fire raging in the central russian army dish and dump has been extinguished after two days around ninety people were injured and two i was unable to indict a lot of time to be triggered by a shock while mid-section carlton to believe that it's. also russia's foreign minister believes nato is a step closer to

a ground invasion leading up to the coalition's use of helicopters for the titans time chalk this time to the oil port of gregory just days after they alliance extended its campaign by removing arms as to headlines next hour special report on how war veterans from three complex code with the reality of having killed. town found out on this mountain pass on. to be a soldier was a very important thing in a young man's life and to be not just a soldier but to be a damn good soldier and to be in combat to. understand the komi. that's where you blow and. and that's the southerner in me in time of war that's

where you belong and think. a lot of mississippi. probably go on my kill me here because of a anger i had to go it out i needed to get out of necessity or a problem was that i had. came up an arbor michigan to work on the harvest and that work i couldn't do i couldn't make money at it so i came back and while i was in jackson i went to the induction center there and signed i believe. i have a sound paint you. this is a cotton military they were textile mills and i want to run for about two months and looking for a job and finally one of the old neighborhood greats had the around for years

as per i get a job in the cotton mill. on a strike the army recruiter. the pentagon. i grew up in a trailer park i grew up in a little small town called parent land texas near galveston and i remember sitting on a couch and watching. the first gulf war. two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait and watching it on the television seeing how quick that win and the hoopla afterward and from the liberated beaches. off oh great to be an american i had felt the we had lost the ghosts of vietnam. i remember sitting there on the child said i and think unless you want to go into you know to go into the military. he didn't do

me. well we got married on day thirty if it be samberg night he's sixty five. so and out of left on january third of nineteen sixty six go on a vietnam so that's why god spent on him in vietnam along. we went from the long tower to been lost where a bear for what they call the orientation period you know to get used to the climate and to actually get used to the cylons or.

the first couple of weeks i was terrified everyone. and after my first briefing i went back to my day. i just cannot sleep i all i could think i was going to begin to shoot my minimal course the next day nothing happened. and then. somewhere at about three or four weeks we had an operation where they had thirty helicopters i was circling waiting on my turn to go in this l.z. or landing zone to put the combat assault in. and our the radio on and the power of the one of the red flight said this is red lead were taken fire and all i could hear in the background was. and i would try to relax and i try to forget about it and it was corrected by this paralyzing kind of fear of knowing that i had to start and be shot at. the helicopter pilots you have

both hands full so your gut instinct is to fight it. but there's no place to hide you're looking through a clear plexiglas window and the surrounding woodland you see little flashes and united people shooting to describe it and hit you. from that point although. i think i realized that it is possible to doubt. that. we were a bunch of thirty guys in a two and a half ton truck put in as replacement train and we couldn't find the division. we finally found it in the first thing they said to us and we got their armor why did you take so long there was no welcome. being a replacement which is the most god awful curse you can have on

a human being. you're going to khan that you don't know anybody and they don't care about you and they were scared to death you were going to do something stupid and lift your head at the wrong time fire at the wrong time anything to attract fire because it would get them killed. by january two thousand and three. i found myself sitting in the kuwaiti desert waiting to invade iraq. i told myself you know hey we're here to fight a war this is it you know this is so tough and this is what eleven years of training you know has accumulated to my main goal was making

sure that my men came home alive hell i didn't care about how i had to say it but i didn't really care about anybody that was outside of my platoon. once we crossed into iraq we were roll into these towns like a bunch of cowboys shooting the place. we went into the rashid. there was an actual military compound since huge military compound we pulled in there was an abrams tank that was parked at one of the entrances. and started asking me what was going on because there were some demonstrators down the road and. i asked him if any of them had any weapons and he said no. and i said well do you think

that. you know they're going to stage a coup against sister anything like that and he said no they they're just down there said and and you know chant and yell and i go behind home plate and tear open an m.r.e. and all sudden i hear a gunshot and i step out from behind my home be. as soon as i stuff out from behind my humvee my marines are destroying their weapons and the demonstrators so on sling my weapon and i put the stock up and. deploy it as a rifle stock up on my shoulder and i'll start firing. and i'm hitting i'm hitting the demonstrators no i am. and of course i mean being at the head i mean. center mass but i don't know who called ceasefire all i know is it was colic simultaneously and we all just stopped farming. militant he comes up to me and he

goes what the hell happened. i don't know you tell me sir you're the lieutenant. i said i do know i heard a gunshot that went over our heads and i said that yours he said heard him say it was the open fart. i don't know. when we did the reconnaissance and as we're driving by. as we're driving by the bodies i'm looking down at the i think ground and not seen any the weapons they were wearing traditional. jalapenos and. course they were soaked in red with blood. you know i thought to myself for a split second i said. you know these people didn't have any weapons we just shot

it in front of the norm. protestors. and in a little voice and in your head goes off in the service well that's war. that's what happens in war. how does how do you chalked it up. i really did. pursue the you know. how did we know.

so on after we arrived in coaching we didn't know that we had built up a scout or above these complex and carnarvon and i'm so when those people ramos daily by sniper fire or at times in the water fire. or felt that way at everything or and against us right there it was just a viet car on. the creatures of nature it's the snakes. it's spiders. i don't know it's a different smile. it's. the wind babble i know i've heard many people say you can't smell blue but to me that's a lie to you you can smell it.

i remember early on i think it was. april. sixth the sixth we were out and hobo woods and there were people in a rice field that we didn't know what they were of and on the bright put us and so are at and we had our end and that short period that we were there and everything in black pajamas was the enemy so we opened fire on them. we were able to go and physically look at them and they had no weapons and they looked to be teenage children young very young. so you have that doubt in your mind when

one reality hit you you know. what did i kill that i kill innocent here or was it a call this of course and that's never answered. that experience of being fired while i had to stock rise and murder so i. asked to be transferred to the arms all cockpits and because they never stopped they should rockets and machine guns. i don't think i really thought about what your job was. but. as some point. you

you come upon a situation where you see people you have to. and you have a machine gun we call it hasan unveiled because it looks like a constant strain. seeing people move. and seeing women and children go into a house and being told that this isn't in any location. you. have to aim at this building and you have to far you the rockets from machine guns and if you're far enough away still not quite like shooting people. but i think that it presents a problem for most people if you think about taking a gun and shooting since. most people can't. a soldier has to be trying to do it so. initially it was pretty tough i tried to.

not see. out that it didn't hit anybody or the only solid building exploded you didn't see the people. that day i could hear the weather was exactly like this it was cold it was it was fine he was damp it was september in northern france. we left for a gun that. we were to cross the moselle you were on one side of the river and you were being destroyed by a terrific i was coming the other way. i was getting off. in the dirt because we knew we were going to be attacked the

territory and i was had michele in my hand and inside me i was flying through the air like like you sledgehammer hit me and thrown me away and of the air and i didn't all of us come back to the ground i went up and up and suddenly i fell back. put my hand up and i felt a piece of soap made my head and then i looked at my hands and they were just scarlet with blood and i looked at my back at my butt and my butt was if you could see the white fat in this huge hole in my butt i remember always lying there and. the many came over and he sort of fixed me up and he was leaning over me and i watched the tip of his nose disappear a piece of shrapnel cut off the tip of his nose and then the blood from his nose

emerged with my nose. and the next thing i knew i was in a stretcher i still don't know harker yet because i was still paralyzed on my right side and when i had the operation on my head and what i still remember i grit my teeth you see i didn't have any honestly and they drilled with the drill to start taking all this stuff out and i can still remember it felt like i had put my head on a railroad track and the train had run over. what i remember is being treated with symbols enormous tenderness and. sometime in male sex to say. neighborly to know my kompany with santa how.

we were like can it be where we were to be it and the other cop unaids were converging and wiping the enemy are. or what's a price night you could. see long distances. we had been out for quite a while on this patrol and and saying anything so we relaxed all at once something called stuck up the bushes. and it scarred of them to see us there and it startled me here. it was firing and i didn't have my weapon was behind the guy i crawled away ok. so i managed to get. angry unaids off they'll. cost

a couple grenades. now with it but i. and we could see as far as we could see there would be a car that was coming up to our parameter. and we called in for and direct fire and couldn't get it we crawled in for the mission to return to port because the cardinals getting over on so well commander told us and just try to find a place and spend the night. we took the marching he was on the one that was killed and when our bomb crater and we sat there on night. eventually the mechanizing only came in and we go to the marshy on.

his brains actually. fell out and so we we were moving. that's still i still think it's real i remember it said and courier or not i. but i did say it sounded hollow. but it was easier to go back and kill that's part of what what drove me. well as we're

at the end of. the sleep. sleep. sleep sleep. sleep. sleep sleep. since it. seems. that some people love to hug their little animals. and do your movie for sale or whatever whatever suits your fancy. but i can also tell you that there is no other feeling in the world it comes close to hunting another human being. that's what you're trained to do. and the drawback to it is the fact that you want to do it

again. because you enjoy it. it's almost like a drug and you become addicted to it but after a while like with any like with any addiction. you know as soon as you're fired and you get that first burst of enjoyment. it only last so long and the high comes to a low. after wears off to feel to me like everything was just somebody dark waters it was like swimming you know in a big well we've referred to in the marine corps as a ship. and. you find yourself. looking forward to the next. mission or for that role.

so. you get all right if it's right over time i don't know why you do it but it's for a skill is the same are you if you think about especially. if you have to kill a close quarters. it up and you know where they killed were. what the knife like. and i hate where we build in our forty's people and i wanted to kill. i felt good at the time when i when i did it bother me if i. didn't

get a chance to kill someone it went beyond an hour from the call of duty get it turned into stop and i said. that i hate that i had grown up in the south i think had expanded. because of what was happening in vietnam so close and people. i feel i have a common animal i. feel no remorse. i literally saw young men turn into psychopathic killers. but the

great thing about the marine corps is the training process that the young men and women go through gives them all the ability to kill at least one time to put that warrior ethos in effect and then once you've done it then it's on you. as so many things happen in a war that puts you at odds with your sense of right and wrong. i've seen things that would be described as is war crimes. the sergeant who had the ring of yours who. is not a secret i mean he's walking around with a big wiring with human ears punched through the low but they're all hanging on the

ring these are people he has cut off their ears to try to get information. on the shooting civilians. you don't really call it it's not like you're shooting a scene there it's like. collateral damage.