CNN Operation Finally Home Heroes December 9, 2013 01:02:00
On the other side of the hill, you look down, there's about a mile-long stretch of this little village where no one lived. we were going to go through to clear it so the local populous could come back and live there. the next morning, we push out, and my buddy john had found an ied in a doorway. so he was going to shoot his 203 into the doorway, which is the .40 millimeter grenade which is under our rifles. we waited for the dust to clear and we came out from behind this wall, and i took about ten steps. and then i woke up on the ground. my staff sergeant with a concussion, popped eardrums, he...