AP IMPACT: Calm - then sudden death in Afghan war (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Fri, 09/04/2009 - 12:04am

FILE- In this Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 file photo, U.S.<br /><br />Marine Lt. Jake Godby pays his respects to Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard during a memorial service at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.<br /><br />Bernard was mortally wounded during a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - The pomegranate grove looked ominous.

The U.S. patrol had a tip that Taliban fighters were lying in ambush, and a Marine had his weapon trained on the trees 70 yards away.

"If you see anything move from there, light it up," Cpl. Braxton Russell told him.




 

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