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5-22-2009 1:17 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cd8d0eb1-6d56-44da-8cb8-6cbc5b503b4b/53CFBBA6-2165-47ED-9444-EB2DC89E52BC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_afghanistan_gates_pink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_afghanistan_gates_pink" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_afghanistan_gates_pink"><P>WASHINGTON (Reuters) – 
<SPAN id="lw_1242955934_0" class="yshortcuts">U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates</SPAN> on Thursday praised an Army soldier in eastern Afghanistan who drew media attention this month after rushing to defend his post from attack while wearing pink <SPAN id="lw_1242955934_1" class="yshortcuts">boxer shorts</SPAN> and flip-flops.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_afghanistan_gates_pink"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/6FA16DD3-726C-4601-BCC3-2ED1D76C45BB" alt="Soldiers from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry take defensive" /></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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_afghanistan_gates_pink"><P>
Army Specialist <SPAN id="lw_1242955934_6" class="yshortcuts">Zachary Boyd</SPAN>, 19, of <SPAN id="lw_1242955934_7" class="yshortcuts">Fort Worth, Texas</SPAN>, rushed from his sleeping quarters on May 11 to join fellow platoon members at a base in Afghanistan's <SPAN id="lw_1242955934_8" class="yshortcuts">Kunar Province</SPAN> after the unit came under fire from Taliban positions.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_afghanistan_gates_pink"><P>
When the image wound up on the front page of the <SPAN id="lw_1242955934_10" class="yshortcuts">New York Times</SPAN>, Boyd told his parents he might lose his job if <SPAN id="lw_1242955934_11" class="yshortcuts">President Barack Obama</SPAN> saw him out of uniform.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_afghanistan_gates_pink"><P>
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