War News
Wounded Hero Wants To Go Back
Monday, April 09, 2007 1:52 PM
The Leftinistra do not understand this mindset. That is because they are cowards. Simple as that.
Purple Heart Recipient Heading Home
…Bacani was a cavalry scout assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division’s 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment , from of Fort Hood, Texas, when he was wounded March 20 during a sniper attack while conducting an IED reconnaissance mission in southwest Baghdad.
“I was shot in the tailbone and it came out of my pelvis,” said Bacani, who now sits in a wheelchair. Doctors are optimistic Bacani will be fully mobile again, he said.
Bacani said courage he displayed during combat and his subsequent recovery, came from “being around his brothers.”
“The courage is contagious,” he said. “If somebody is being strong it will spread throughout the whole platoon.
“We trained for Iraq together for a whole year,” he said. “Once we arrived in Iraq, we struggled through multiple (improvised explosive devices) and losses of the lives of our friends,” Bacani told American Forces Press Service. “There’s no word to explain how strong that bond is.”…”
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