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And while some Gi's return home, others may never, if the mob has any say in the matter:
BALAD, Iraq - Second Lt. Ferley Jaramillo put his left hand on top of his head... "They're going nuts," said Jaramillo, a member of the 81st Brigade Combat Team from Olympia, Wash.
In a story absent from all major media coverage, nearly 40 soldiers from the 81st, traveling in 11 Humvees, made what they thought was a "short trip" to "win hearts and minds". Unannounced because of security concerns, word nonetheless had spread, and unknown to the GI's a determined group of Iraqis awaited them.
And other than a lone correspondent from the unit's local paper, no media coverage at all of the riot.
Perhaps the casualty count was too low?
(Read the whole thing)