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Marooned Soldiers: 'Our Morale is Gone'

Tom Lasseter and Drew Brown | Knight Ridder/Tribune Wire | July 16, 2003

"Soldiers who were among those who took Baghdad [were] first told they would head home May 1. Instead, they were shipped to Fallujah. Word came that they would be gone July 1. Didn't happen. Then July 18 was the date to circle. Then Aug. 1."

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