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Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Purple Fingers
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Monday, October 24, 2005. I was in Baquba during the January elections. I’d hitched a ride with the US Army to a polling site. There were bombs exploding, mortars falling, and hot machine guns. The fact that the voting was going great despite the violence was something few people expected. When the soldiers dropped me off along with a CNN crew, they couldn’t believe we were willing to go alone. Neither could I. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I could have asked to be embedded in the JOC (Joint Operation...
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Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Call for Volunteers: Frontline Forum
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Saturday, January 07, 2006. Call for Volunteers: Frontline Forum. Retired Military Persons Needed. One antidote to the no news but bad news flu would be to let more of these voices be heard. A simple call for stories, would probably stuff the inbox with emailed submissions. Having already made my ongoing inability to read email well known on these pages, any information system predicated on my reading emails would clog before it launched. This is where the volunteers come in. SUPPORT THE NEXT DISPATCH.
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Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Deja Vu in Dohuk
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Monday, January 16, 2006. Deja Vu in Dohuk. National Geographic has published one of most intelligently written pieces on Iraq I have seen. I do not know the writer, Frank Viviano, or the photographer, Ed Kashi, but their collaboration entitled Who's Winning in Iraq. Is precise and cogent. A preview is available online here. But to actually read the article, please pick up a copy of the January 2006 edition. And "Lost in Translation.". Posted by Michael Yon @ 11:53 PM Permanent Link. Return To Front Page.
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Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Catch and Release
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006. He was only 23 years-old but by any measure he was a man. A real man who stood up to the terrorists who were savagely torturing him on an airliner. Those same terrorists shot the young Navy diver and dumped his body onto the tarmac. I remember the day in 1985 that Robert Stethem was murdered. Dear Mr. President,. I wish you a happy and healthy New Year to you, yours and our incredible country. During your father's watch as the Vice-President, and then President, he promised my ...
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Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Update: Iraq Constitutional Referendum Dispatch
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Friday, October 21, 2005. Update: Iraq Constitutional Referendum Dispatch. My dispatch entitled Purple Fingers," covering the Iraqi Constitutional Referendum, is finished. An excerpted version will be published in The Weekly Standard on Monday, 24 October 2005. The complete dispatch will be published here on the same day. We also have more news about Rhma posted on our media section. For details on these, click here. Posted by Michael Yon @ 2:15 AM Permanent Link. SUPPORT THE NEXT DISPATCH. Wednesday Aug...
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Michael Yon : Online Magazine: A tribute for service members and families
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Sunday, January 15, 2006. A tribute for service members and families. Many people say this is the most important photograph of the Iraq war. Some have called it "a national treasure." The image most completely embodies my experience throughout Iraq. Countless people have asked for reprints, but I wanted to give the matter some thought. I did not want to diminish the symbolism of this photograph, and the American soldiers who risked their lives to save this little girl. Posted by Michael Yon @ 9:35 AM Per...
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Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Americans Among Us
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Monday, November 14, 2005. I had yelled goodbye to Walt just before the mission, and some hours later when a bomb tore through the bottom of his Stryker vehicle, every man in it- including Walt- was wounded. Many American soldiers are not actually citizens of the United States, but the "foreigners" in the US Army I got to know in Mosul didn't fight with any less commitment than those born in the US. Suddenly Walt was all over the news: the internet, newspapers coast to coast, and even television. In ...
