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Wednesday, May 05, 2004

El Salvador's remarkable soldiers 

Rob A. has a very interesting post summarizing the great contributions of El Salvador's contingent in Iraq. Here's the underlying article. Money quote:

One of his friends was dead, 12 others lay wounded and the four soldiers still left standing were surrounded and out of ammunition. So Salvadoran Cpl. Samuel Toloza said a prayer, whipped out his knife and charged the Iraqi gunmen.

In one of the only known instances of hand-to-hand combat in the Iraq conflict, Cpl. Toloza stabbed several attackers swarming around a comrade. The stunned assailants backed away momentarily, just as a relief column came to the unit's rescue.


Tough guys. Read the whole thing.

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