Civilian Contractors Face Hardships in Iraq, Without the Honor

Filed under:General,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 4/2/2007 @ 2:11 pm

From: Lt. Col. Oliver North/Fox News

Three weeks after Pearl Harbor, nearly 100 American civilian construction contractors were killed and wounded standing shoulder-to-shoulder with U.S. Marines and sailors defending Wake Island. When the tiny garrison was overwhelmed on 23 December 1941, more than 1,000 contractors became prisoners of the Rising Sun and scores were subsequently worked to death and massacred by their captors. None of those who died received so much as a Purple Heart.

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