07-F-0516_Email_Iraq_Combat_07-02-2004.pdf

Unknown WASHINGTON - The Internet, which fills our i nboxes wi th spam and s cams every day and keeps our delete keys shiny, occasionally delivers a r e al keeper, such as the words below, which were written by a graduate of West Point, Class of 2003, who's now at war in Iraq. We tracked down the author, who gave us permission to quote from his letter so long as we didn't reveal his name. Old soldiers in the Civil War coined a phrase for green troops who survived >their first taste of battle: "H...