Soldier describes 'forgotten war'


	Soldier describes 'forgotten war'

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The mission is remote in every sense of the word — far from civilization and public consciousness.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080112/NEWS01/801120365/1001/NEWS01"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.honoluluadvertiser.com/img/42AC4B90-75F1-4BD4-AF7B-0BFF2BD6F54B" alt="Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080112/NEWS01/801120365/1001/NEWS01"><P>But the mission remains part of what is still largely a forgotten war.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080112/NEWS01/801120365/1001/NEWS01"><P>"It's surprising. A lot of my friends forgot that I went to Afghanistan," Napoleon said. "They all think we're in Kuwait and Iraq right now."</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/31ABE434-936A-442D-8531-518DEE884746/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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