“YANKEE bastard,” yelled the young British peacenik at the first American tank to roll up to the Palestine Hotel. “Go home.” She picked a man who had been waiting for 576 days to give his answer. Marine First Lieutenant Tim McLaughlin leant from the turret of his Abrams battle tank — nickamed “Satan’s Right Hand” — and screamed back: “I was at the Pentagon September 11. My co-workers died. I don’t give a f***.”
Lieutenant McLaughlin had with him a Stars and Stripes that he had been given at the Pentagon that fateful day. In Baghdad’s Paradise Square, he handed the flag to Corporal Edward Chin, who climbed a giant statue of Saddam and, in an act of potent symbolism, draped it over the deposed dictator’s head.
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