Backed for days in Baghdad with dust storms and red skies to the north. My videographer and I have been making our way slowly around the safe area, getting money shots of Saddam’s greater follies in the vanishing desert twilight.
Wen Yu Ho ’10 is a typical college student, at least by Yale standards.
Michael Mullen, the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held the floor of the Osborne Memorial Laboratory auditorium for a little over an hour Wednesday afternoon before nearly 200 undergraduates, graduate students and other members of the Yale community.
When Capt. Jason Hamill, 31, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on Nov. 26 of last year, he was just six hours away from going home. Another six hours and he would have been out of the Army forever, after 12 years of service and missions in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. His wife had already started planning a homecoming party for him.
