Tuesday, November 25, 2003

"SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST BORN TO DO SOMETHING"

Meet this Army Captain up close.
Prior chairs the neighborhood council, mediating disputes and otherwise trying to convince locals, through his words and deeds, that the occupying Americans have their best interests at heart.

"Some people are just born to do something," he told the magazine, adding that he loves Army life.

"The sappy reasons people say they're in the military -- those are the reasons I'm in," he said. "When the Peace Corps can't quite get it done and diplomacy fails and McDonald's can't build enough franchises to win Baghdad over, that's when the military comes in."

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