Black Knights, Dark Days by J. Matthew Fisk (.ePUB)+
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Black Knights, Dark Days: the True Story of Sadr City’s Black Sunday by J. Matthew Fisk
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Overview: They told us that we would be spending a year in the safest part of Iraq. Sadr City at the end of the 2nd Iraq war was full of Shia who hated Saddam Hussein and welcomed the U.S. liberators. Our mission was to restore essential services to the slum which housed nearly 3 million people in conditions of absolute squalor. Unknown to us, Muqtada Al Sadr and his militia, ten thousand strong in that city, had prepared a complex ambush coinciding with the exact moment our unit assumed responsibility for the city. My platoon was on a routine patrol when we became the target of that attack. Insurgents quickly disabled half our vehicles and forced us to take cover.
Eighteen American soldiers and an Iraqi translator defended a narrow alley against 500 to one odds. The enemy sent a wave of unarmed women and children in to the alley before them as human shields, forcing us to choose between our humanity and our lives. April 4th, 2004 would become known in the media as Black Sunday. To the Black Knights of 2/5 Cavalry Regiment it would become the single moment which defined us as warriors and left almost everyone scarred for life. We made it out of that alley, but I think most of us are still there.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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