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RAMADI, Iraq - Marine Capt. Andrew Del Gaudio walked down the battered staircase, past the dusty American flag strung in the hall, past the windows crammed with sandbags.
In the darkened ground-floor corridor of Government Center, Marines rested on cots and worn sofas, some smoking in silence. The complex houses the office of the Iraqi governor of Anbar province, and shakes from exploding mortar rounds or rockets fired by insurgents just about every day.See the full content of this document
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Marine Unit in Iraq Leaves No One Behind
Stepping outside wrapped in his flak jacket - not even the compound's inner courtyards are safe - Del Gaudio punched a number into a satellite telephone that only worked in the open air.
The signal bounced skyward, then down to America.In Jacksonville, N.C., it was early Sunday morning, April 2.His wife, Nicole, mother of his nearly 20-month-old daughter, was on the line."We had a real bad day," the 30-year-old New York native told her. "I had to do something ... and ended up getting hurt. But I'm all right."Del...See the full content of this document
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