Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
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The boy opened his mouth again. Another whine spilled out between cracked lips. Behind them, we saw ruptured gums and no teeth.
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“Get Yusef and Doc Pantoja,”
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The boy’s condition evoked no visible emotions in my ’terp.
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I didn’t want the rest of the men to see
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the
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boy.
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What if we climbed the slope and walked into an
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enemy stronghold?
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Protecting them from this sight was worth the risk.
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“Let’s take him up to the village.”
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We started
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up the slope,
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The
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village
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was a fri...
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The mud-walled huts were barren of even the most basic essen...
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was riddled with human feces, animal dung, and filth. The smell of such a place is one that n...
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Movement inside a nearby shed caught our attention.
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A little girl peered out from one of the huts. The girl’s face, once beautiful, was striped with purple and yellow bruises.
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Lying on the shed’s dirt floor was another boy, perhaps a year old. He was partially naked, and flies had infested his body.
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“Doc, do whatever you can for him.” “I don’t think there’s much hope, sir. They’re eating him alive.”
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The two shared words, and the elder held the boy in a fierce, protective embrace.
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“Yusef, find out what happened to this kid.”
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The enemy had kidnapped the elder’s oldest grandson. He was the future of the family, the boy most cherished and revered in Afghan culture.
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They had tracked the enemy gang back to their lair and somehow liberated the elder’s grandson. But by then
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“The enemy came back to the village and beat the other children as punishment.”
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Why would they do this to their own people?
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“Yusef,” I said, “tell the elder we’re bringing him medical supplies, food, and water. Anyone who needs help, we
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We
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went
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to work treating the battere...
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her dark eyes bright and full of mirth. How that could even be possible in this awful
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place
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The community had been too traumatized by the enemy’s assaults to inflict violence on one another.
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I oversaw the distribution of the food and medical supplies. We gave the elder’s people all our medicine, and Doc Pantoja carefully explained their use and function.
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our horror and grief spinning together into a ball of molten rage at the men who could inflict such torture on innocent people.
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