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	A lost war

sweetsistermary

7-18-2008 6:27 PM

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<P> "It's gonna be a bloodbath," he told his father, Kurt Zwilling, on the phone in what would be their last conversation.</P><P> Kurt Zwilling braced himself for the worst but held out hope that his son would make it home.</P><P> "They were in the most dangerous place on Earth. They were in mortal danger, and there was nothing they could do it about it," he said. "But they were soldiers, so they had to do their job."</P><P>   With just a few days left in their 15-month tour, Gunnar Zwilling and eight of his comrades were killed July 13 in a clash with as many as 200 <A class="cnnInlineTopic" href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/The_Taliban">Taliban</A> militants during a mission to set up an outpost near Wanat. It was the deadliest attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan in three years.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2869932D-77AE-4789-84A1-03CD62808EEE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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