A Story From a True Patriots Fan

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Published: April 29, 2009

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... border="0" /> Patriot Pat says...


If you haven't noticed, I end all of my articles with: Andrew Cahill is a true Boston sports fan.

Let me set the scene.


It was late March, 2003, late at night, and I couldn't sleep because my heart was racing from the noise of helicopters that I had been hearing for hours.

I could hear them flying back and forth over us—they were Blackhawks running medevacs, since Task Force Tarawa was getting their ass handed to them just north in Nasiriyah, Iraq.

We knew it was a matter of time until we were sent up to help, and everyone was pretty restless.

It had been four days since we had crossed the border from Kuwait, and had hardly had any contact with anyone, let alone anyone we could assume an enemy.

We got the order to move up, but had it become morning by this point. The Marines of Alpha Company, First Reconnaissance Battalion took the lead as we m...

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