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PMI's Wesley Morgan reports from a patrol on Haifa Street:

As we pushed through Saddamiya, I couldn't see my own feet, it was so dark, but the soldiers had their night-vision devices, and my brain stopped for a moment again to tell me how truly bizarre my surroundings were: walking forward in complete darkness, the only light the faint green glow of one nearby soldier's night goggles, through a ruinous, blacked out neighborhood that at the time of Princeton intersession had been the scene of a deadly battle between Stryker soldiers and heavily armed concentrations of al Qaeda and Tawhid wal-Jihan terrorists. As we walked down the last block of Haifa Street toward the trees at gate of the COP, Lt. Col. Peterson walked by me and said, from the blackness: "Now you can tell people you walked the length of what six months ago was the most dangerous street in Iraq."

LTC Peterson's superlative and the incredible feelings described by Morgan are well-made.

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