As Comrades Search, Fatal Bomb Wreaks Havoc

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Source: New York Times

As Comrades Search, Fatal Bomb Wreaks Havoc

By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: May 23, 2007

MAHMUDIYA, Iraq, May 22 — The ground exploded under an ashen sky at dawn. Dust, dirt, blood and military equipment filled the air, clearing after several seconds to reveal a frenzied scene of horror.
Where Sgt. Justin D. Wisniewski, 22, had just been standing there was now a crater five feet wide and three feet deep. His body lay nearby. The wounded were scattered around him.

The soldiers swore.
“It was Ski,” one said, using the sergeant’s nickname.


Michael Kamber for The New York Times
A medic bandaged the face of a soldier who was hit by shrapnel.

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After the attack on Saturday, the reality of the threat set in: the fields they had been crossing on foot for months might now be as dangerous as the roads they had learned to avoid. What they had just witnessed — a homemade land mine, or what the military calls a dismounted improvised explosive device — could be anywhere.

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But “I love you, man” was far more common. Huge, strong men hugged, tears streaming down their faces. When it was not clear whether the seriously wounded soldier on the ground would make it, “I love you” was said repeatedly, blurted out as if it was something they wished they had told Sergeant Wisniewski.

When one of the wounded soldiers insisted that the mushy stuff had gone too far, there was friendly resistance. “What, I can’t love someone now?” a soldier said.
“I love you,” he said. “I can say ‘I love you’ if I want to.”






Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/world/middleeast/23search.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

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