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Aaron M. Kenefick knew that his life could be snuffed out at any minute.
As a gunnery sergeant with the Marine Corps, he took part in dangerous, secret operations all over the world. More than once, he warned his loved ones that someday, he may not come back alive.
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By Frances Thrasher Norge
The Virginian-Pilot
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On April 9, 2003, an Associated Press photographer caught Saddam Hussein's statue falling in Baghdad's Firdos Square while Marine Gunnery Sgt. Nick Popaditch smoked a celebratory cigar in the foreground. It was an "Iwo Jima" image of the Iraq War.
Like the successful assault on the heavily defended island in World War II, the taking of Baghdad represented an important victory with lots of hard work yet to be done. The U.S. assault, launched just 19 days earlier from the Kuwaiti border, was the most effective takedown of a heavily defended regime in the history of the world. Sustaining less than 200 fatal U.S. casualties, the 3rd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army and the 1st Marine Division, with lots of help from the Air Force and Navy, spearheaded the drive, slashing through and aroun...
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FORT LEE - Today, the 36th annual U.S. Army Culinary Arts Competition opens to the public.
We got together two weeks ago and started practicing our menu," said Marine Gunnery Sgt. William Allison. Allison was serving as team leader for Team Hawaii in the field cooking competition Wednesday and was the 2008 Armed Forces Chef of the Year.
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Punish those who failed to help soldiers in need
I was enraged when I read the article in The News about Marine Gunnery Sgt. Aaron M. Kenefick and the four others killed in an ambush in Afghanistan. I suggest that the failure to provide support for troops under fire, if available, would be aiding and abetting the enemy. Treason, as defined in Article 3 Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, is as follows: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
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LINCOLN A retired U.S. Marine gunnery sergeant decorated for saving lives in Gulf War I and Somalia, Roy Bickford didn't hesitate or even worry when an elderly woman rushed toward him late last month yelling that her husband wasn't breathing.
I said to him, 'You OK? You OK?' He was very pale and I could not get a pulse," Bickford recalled Tuesday. "I pulled him out of his wheelchair and laid him on a picnic table and got him breathing again.
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Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Aaron M. Kenefick's prophecy came true Thursday.
Two days before the Williamsville native died in 2009 in one of the worst firefights of the Afghanistan War, he said to his friend, then-Cpl. Dakota L. Meyer: "You never know, you could become the next Medal of Honor recipient.