SEATTLE - In summer 2008, a team of U.S. Army advisers working in the rugged terrain of eastern Afghanistan found the load shouldered by soldiers had reached a kind of tipping point. These soldiers trudged through the mountains with body armor, weapons and a variety of other equipment. The weight often topped 100 pounds, wearing down soldiers and restricting their movement when they came under fire from insurgents.
For more than 200 years, the United States has sent its soldiers and sailors to the Middle East to fight in various conflicts. Whether the goal was to end piracy, fight Nazism, rescue American hostages, liberate Kuwait or defeat terrorism, the U.S. has been willing to commit men and matEriel in order to protect its interests in North Africa, Somalia, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. Today is not a day to debate the merits of those interventions, but to honor those killed while serving thousands of miles away from their families. On this Memorial Day, I'd like to remember those American soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country while serving in the Middle East. To the soldiers who fought in the First Barbary War (1801-1805) against the Barba...
Eisaku Ace Hiromura, here in April at a U.S. history class at Columbia River High School, was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team honored Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol. ---
KABUL -- About 50 civilians, security forces and militants were killed in a wave of violence around Afghanistan, including a bomb that left 14 Afghan travelers dead in one of the country's most dangerous regions. Five American soldiers died in two attacks using roadside bombs. The attacks Friday and Saturday reached a broad swath of the country, demonstrating the spread of the Taliban insurgency, which had been largely confined to the country's south and east in the years after the 2001 U.S. invasion. Half of those killed in the most recent attacks were civilians, who often find themselves caught in the grinding war between the Taliban and U.S. and NATO forces.
This year marks the 65th anniversary of the Allied liberation of most of the Nazi concentration camps and the inmates that were imprisoned in these hellish places. Tragic but true, a number of those who were among the millions of inmates in these horrible places were Americans soldiers of Mexican descent. Some American soldiers were thrown into these barbaric hell holes, against the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, because the Germans suspected them of being "Jewish." As part of their monstrous campaign of exterminating all Jews, the Nazis built these concentration camps to annihilate Jews and all others deemed "inferior." As many as 350 Americans taken as prisoners of war at the Battle of the Bulge were classified as "Jews" and thrown into the Buchenwald subcamp ...
BAGHDAD - Five American soldiers died Monday when a barrage of rockets slammed into a base in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad - the largest, single-day loss of life for U.S. forces in Iraq in two years. The attack follows warnings from Shiite militants backed by Iran and anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that they would violently resist any effort to keep American troops in Iraq past their year- end deadline to go home.
KABUL - The U.S. military faced more criticism in Afghanistan on Monday as a charity accused American soldiers of storming through a provincial hospital, breaking down doors and tying up staff and visitors in a hunt for insurgents. Critics say such heavy-handed tactics violate international principles and threaten to undermine support for the war against the Taliban. The American military said it was investigating the allegation, which comes on the heels of a furor over disputed reports that up to 70 Afghan civilians died in a NATO airstrike in the country's north last week.
Gates focused his Afghanistan tour this week on gauging the ability of United States-led coalition forces to accelerate the training of Afghan soldiers and police- a key element of President Barack Obama's war strategy intended to eventually allow American soldiers to begin to come home. Lieutenant Colonel James Duben, the Squadron Commander for international advisers training Afghan army helicopter pilots, told Gates he hopes to have the first Afghans flying their Russianmade M- 17 and M-35 helicopters into battle by April 2010.
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