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THE BATTLE OF COW HORN PART 1
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THE BATTLE OF COW HORN PART 1 IT WAS A QUIET NIGHT THE TOWN EMPTY. TE GANGS HAD RULED THE STREETS LEFT NOTHING BUT DISPARE AND MISERY. PEOPL HUDDLED IN THEIR HOMES FOR SAFTY. THE YOUNG WOMEN HID BEHIND DRAWN SHADES. THE TASTE OF FAR WAS THE MEAL THIS NIGHT. THOSE WHO VENTURED OUT BECAM CARRION FOT MARUDING KIDNAPPERS WHO HELD THE INNOCENT FO RANSOM. FOR THOSE WHERE A TRBUTE COULD NOT BE PAYED SLAVERY WOULD BEST DESCIBE THEIR LOT. A LONE AFGAN SOLDIER RETURNED O THE LITTLE PECOS TOWN OF COW HORN. JOE MAPLES ARRIVED BY BUS HIS UNIFORM STILL HAD HE SMELL OF WAR. JOE LEARNED ABOUT LIFE AND DATH UNDER FIRE. THE FARM BOY MET DEATH AND THOSE MERCHANTS OF WAR. HIS CHEST WAS HEAVY WITH THE BRAVERY MEDALS HE RECEIVED. HE HAD ENTERED THE MILITARY AT 18 YEARS OLD AFTER SOME QUICK TRAINING AT FORT HOOD HE WAS THROWN INTO BATTLE. LEAVING BEHIND HIS FAMILKY AND LOVE MARIA HE HAD NO IDEA WHAT HAD TRANSPIRED IN COW HOR DURING HIS SIX YEARS OF FIGHTING IN THE MOUNTAINS OF AFGANISTAN. THERE RELIGIOUS AND OPIM SELLERS REBEL BECAME A FORMIDABLE ENEMY.JOE THE ARMY RANGER BECAME A HEROIC SOLDIER KILLING AND OUT THINKING TOSE WAR DOGS. IT WAS SAID THAT HE HAD PLAYED A IMPORTANT PART IN THE NEUTRALIZING BEN LADEN.THE BUS STOPPED AND JOE ONCE AGAIN WAS ON THE STREETS OF COW HORN. THE DUST CHOAKED HIS LUNGS AS HEN NOTICED THERE WERE NO PEOPLE IN THE STREETRS. STORES HAD CLOSED LITTLE BYE LITTLE AS THE XCRTELS STRANGLE HOLD ON HE TOWN BECAME TIGHTER AND TIGHTERE JOE DECIDED TO WALK THE HALF MILE TO HIS FARM AND FAMILY. AS HE WALKEED JOE WAS FOLLOWED BYE TWO BANDITES IN A CAR. JOE REACHED INSIDE HID COAT AND PUT HIS HAND ON HIS 45 CALIBER PISTOL. IN A RUSH ONE OF HE MEN IN THE CAR JUMPED OUT AND TO;D JOE TO GET ON THE GROUND. LIFE AND DEATH MERGED AS JOE PULLED HIS PISTOL AND SHOT THE INTRUDER IN HE HEAD. THE DRIVER LAUNCHED HIS CAR AT JOE. JOE FIRED AGAIN HIS SURE SHOT DISPATCHED THE ATTACKER AS THE CAR TURNED OVER N THE GULLY. JOE WAS SAFE FOR THE MOMENT AS HE REACHED THE FAMILY FARM. THE DRIVEWAY WAS LONG AS JOE TOOK ONE STEP AFTER THE OTHER AS HE REACHED THE FARM HOUSE. HIS MOM AND DAD RUSHED THE DOOR AND HUGGED THEIR . \ JOE HAD SENT SOME ROUGH YEARS IN HE AFGAN WILD MOUNTAINS. TRACKING REBELS SMUGGLERS SLAVE TRADERS AND WEAPONS DEALERS HAD ADDED AGE TO THE YOUNG MAN WHO LEFT HE FARM EIGHT YEARS EARLIER. HIS PERSONAL BODY COUNT WAS A STAGGERING FIFTY TWO/ JOE HAD RECEIVED TWO BRONZE STARS THREE PURPLE HEARTS FOR WOUNDS RECEIVED IN COMBAT. THREE SILVER STARS FOR BRAVERY IN SAVING THE LIVES OF HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS. TO HIM THE MOST PROFOUND MISSION WAS THE RESCUE OF TWELVE SCHOOL GIRLS DESTINED FOR IN KABUL. THESE YOUNG SCHOOLGIRLS WERE TAKEN BY FORCE FROM HEIER VILLACE. THE TALIBAN KIDNAPPERS KILLED THREE OF THE FATHERS AS THEy TRIED TO PROTECT THEIR DAUGHTERS       |
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