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yellowwing
11-11-04, 05:17 PM
WITH THE EIGHTH MARINES

By DEXTER FILKINS, NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/international/middleeast/10mosque.html)

...The day was not all destruction. As the Marines fought their way through a town seemingly empty of civilians, it was a surprise when the troops leaped into a house during a firefight to find a confused elderly man seated on the front porch.

He was dressed in brown pajamas and he was alone. The Marines gathered around him, with the bullets zinging past.

"Afwan,'' he said in Arabic, the word for "excuse me." "Afwan."

The marines moved on and left him standing on the porch.

Poor old Gaffer! :banana: