War In Afghanistan

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    Assignment Afghanistan: Go Down Nightmare

    January 1, 2011 by Adam Day
    They knew there would be bombs buried in the dirt. They knew their metal detectors probably wouldn’t detect the bombs’ wooden pressure plates. They knew that after the bombs they would be ambushed and the air would zing with high-velocity metal. The Canadians knew they were...
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    Assignment Afghanistan

    January 20, 2010 by Adam Day
    . PHOTO: ADAM DAY Legion Magazine staff writer Adam Day spent nearly a month in Afghanistan last October. These field notes serve as a prelude to a major special section on the war in Afghanistan scheduled to appear in the March/April issue—the Editor. AFGHANISTAN FIELD...
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    The Battle For Panjwai: A Soldier’s Story

    August 20, 2009 by Matthew Parsons
    An orange sky and the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan provide a backdrop for a military vehicle. PHOTO: COMBAT CAMERA/DND Ambush At The White School One of the first battles for the infamous white school in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan occurred on Aug. 3, 2006—one month...
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    Left Of The Boom

    January 19, 2009 by Adam Day
    Left Of The Boom. ILLUSTRATION: ©Greg Stevenson/www.i2iart.com The feeling has been described by survivors as falling. Also as soaring. There’s a flash and a shrieking darkness and then the weightless moments of maximum kinetic terror when the detonation blasts you beyond gravity. After the boom there...