You can only send a Marine, you can only send a soldier over there so many times.
Faced with an order from a soldier or policeman, many still find it safer simply to obey.
Over the years, many Georgians, including this ex-soldier, a bearded priest, a star ballerina, and even the patriarch of the Georgian orthodox church, have offered me similar parting gifts, but usually only after inviting me to taste the country's national beverage.
The American soldier who was taking on so many roles when he was being interviewed, town major? counsellor?
He makes no secret of his respect for the common soldier and his disdain for the many politicians whom he feels often put them in harm's way.
"The heroic actions of the dead soldier and his compatriots have saved many Somali lives, " said Mohamat Annadif, the AU's special representative on Somalia, said in a statement.
One of the songs he composed for the production, "No Mother, " is about those who lost their parents under the Khmer Rouge, and the main character, Sam, has suppressed many of his painful memories of being a child soldier during that era.
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Adrian Coomber, mayor of Carterton, said numbers vary based on how far away a soldier's regiment is based and how many ceremonies take place in a single day.
He said many people had remarked on the "gaze" in the soldier's eyes, saying he looked nervous.
"Every soldier who dies here in Afghanistan is one too many, " he said.
Elsewhere, many Afghans seemed ready to believe that ISAF was lying: that the soldier had not acted alone, or had been drunk.
The military currently has as many as 3, 500 robots in Afghanistan, from small contraptions that a soldier can pitch through a window to bulldozer-size machines that can plow over mine-seeded roads.
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Based on his experiences as a soldier in the Philippines, it sold 200, 000 copies and was acclaimed by critics, many of whom regarded it as one of the finest novels of the post-war period.
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