BAGHDAD, iraq – The massive explosion ripped a crater into the road. Fort Lewis soldiers, dazed and bloody, staggered from their toppled Stryker and pulled buddies out as enemy fighters rained bullets from all directions.
The horror happened nearly six weeks ago to a platoon of the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment. Some survivors still have trouble sleeping.
These soldiers go on with their daily combat missions in western Baghdad and try to keep living their lives as before. But the explosion is always there, just beneath the surface.
They keep reminders of their fallen friends, Cpl. Kenneth Cross and Spc. Daniel Dolan, all around.[...]
Stryker soldiers recall horror of day
SEAN COCKERHAM; The News TribuneBAGHDAD, iraq – The massive explosion ripped a crater into the road. Fort Lewis soldiers, dazed and bloody, staggered from their toppled Stryker and pulled buddies out as enemy fighters rained bullets from all directions.
The horror happened nearly six weeks ago to a platoon of the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment. Some survivors still have trouble sleeping.
These soldiers go on with their daily combat missions in western Baghdad and try to keep living their lives as before. But the explosion is always there, just beneath the surface.
They keep reminders of their fallen friends, Cpl. Kenneth Cross and Spc. Daniel Dolan, all around.[...]
