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The American Soldier - one year into OIF

Mar-26-2004 » Filed Under: General Military , Iraq News

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By Sgt. 1st Class Donald Sparks

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 25, 2004) -- When I was asked to write an editorial reflecting on the one-year anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom, initially I thought it would be too easy to transfer my thoughts to my fingers -- yet this piece was a struggle.

I couldn’t keep track of how often I pressed my backspace key or how often I deleted entire sentences and paragraphs because I knew whatever I wanted to say – it just had to be right. And then I recalled a quote from former Sergeant Major of the Army George W. Dunaway in a 1990 interview with the Center of Military History on the American Soldier.

I studied line by line his words and it is appropriate as we look back on a year in which our Army and the resolve of the American Soldier have been tested and friendships on the battlefield have been forged.

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