The question is, why is this story in the NYTimes? Once they OWN the gummint the agenda is going to be PRO war, bet on it. They are just getting folks ready for 100 years in Iraq under Democrats.
defeatist claptrap.
The 173rd from it's deployment from home base in Vicenza, Italy, was scheduled for embeds - One was a military photogragher, Brandon Aird.
There was the team of Sebastian Junger (Perfect Storm) and British photographer, Tim Hetherington (who's photo of one of the soldiers in Battle Co. just won first prize - out of 80,000 submitted - for the 2007 World Press Photo Award. link below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7240590.stm
Their story was shown in an ABC documentary in Nov and in the Jan issue of Vanity Fair.
This NYT Magazine piece was done by a team of two women embedded during the same time -
I have been waiting for months for this to get to publication,,,was afraid I'd miss it, not knowing just which forum they would use or when.
An online contact gave me the head's up on it this morning.
This is an important story of the worst and most dangerous spot in the whole WOT - these incredible troops deserve recognition and to not be forgotten =
I do hope anyone who posts on this story will first read it in it's entirety...it's one small thing we, who enjoy our peaceful sleep back home, can do for them