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firefight
Hamas commander killed; IDF soldier seriously injured in clash near Gaza border
Israeli forces shot dead a member of Hamas\’s armed wing after a firefight erupted along the border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and an Israeli soldier was wounded, Gaza hospital officials and the Israeli army said.
MY IRAQ
When a Marine finds himself in a ditch or an abandoned house, suddenly under fire, having to decide where to shoot and who to kill, it may not much matter if the Marine is Jewish. It was before and after the firefights in Iraq that Marine Corps Sgt. Kayitz Finley remembered and confronted his belief.\n\nThe war in Iraq cost Finley his faith for awhile. It also took away 11 buddies — including a close friend — men on whom he\’d depended to get home in one piece. Still, for Finley, the conflict was never the wrong war, the wrong place or the wrong time. For him, the Iraq War was as advertised — a war of liberation, a war keeping faith with the American principle of bringing freedom to those lacking it.\n\n\”Every Marine out there was for the cause,\” said Finley, who served two combat tours in Iraq. \”I believe in the cause, and I wanted to continue what I was doing.\”