`Minnesota Nice' goes to war -Knight Ridder

[Rose Siding]

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"I was not an aggressive person. I was the most passive person: `It's OK, you go first,'" said Michelle Maxwell, who works in a nursing home in Austin, Minn.
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"I said, `There's just no way.' I put old people to bed. There's no way I could run over a kid," Maxwell said.

That was before she saw fellow soldiers in her transportation unit getting blown up on the roads of northern Iraq.

Now she talks about the "rush" of confronting insurgent attacks, forcing civilian traffic out of the way and stitching the pavement with her machine gun if another vehicle gets too close.
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Maxwell said she volunteered to extend her job on a gun truck for a couple of months after the rest of the unit goes home.

"Because I can. I'm 21. I don't have anything," she said. "My parents gave my cat away."

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12582925.htm

Lost lives

[aquart]

1. What kind of people give their child's cat away?

[rwheeler31]

2. I would give it to a good home. I really didin't like that performance.

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[WhiteTara]

3. those who see what a monster their child

has become? Maybe they think she will shoot at it if it gets too close?

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. That's what I call being corrupted.

Would you like to live nearby a monster like that?