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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Heroes Defy Death Cult to Deliver AidThis is a nice little article. Far from their Wisconsin and Tennessee homes, members of the U.S. Army National Guard say that no matter where they go in Iraq, their delivery of humanitarian aid produces smiles on the faces of children. It also ratchets up the daily threat of sudden death from car bombers determined to stop the aid.
Task force 1-128, composed of sections of the 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry Regiment of the Wisconsin Army National Guard, and the 3rd Battalion, 278th Infantry Regiment of the Tennessee Army National Guard, has been in Iraq since late 2004. The group is based in Samarra, Iraq, 125 kilometers north of Baghdad, and has distributed supplies to the villages of Albouhaswa, Ahmed Hajam and Ja'afaral Jalaby.
Recently, Specialist Charles Kaufman, from Fairchild, Wis., was killed by a car bomb while driving his Humvee.
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