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After I said my goodbyes on my last day at the school, he surprised me by handing the coin to me on his way out of the classroom. Chris said that the coin had given him good luck and kept him alive for some time, and maybe it would do the same for me.

You see, I am a U.S. Army reservist. I was mobilized and sent to Fort Bragg, N.C., and then to Kirkuk in northeastern Iraq. I am an English teacher and an airborne combat cameraman with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, the unit that parachuted into northern Iraq at the beginning of the war.