AND SCARIER STILL.

And at the barracks of the 1st Armored Division artillery battery, Pvt. Jonathan Mayberry, a soft-spoken 20-year-old from Tifton, Ga., was off patrol duty after being wounded twice in five days. Shrapnel hit him in the back of his head when an explosive detonated behind his Humvee on June 22; debris struck him in the face when someone rolled a grenade under his vehicle the previous Wednesday.

"Everybody's scared out there. If somebody says they're not, they're lying," Mayberry said.

Amen, brother.

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