2010年9月6日星期一

Six decades and half a world away

Six decades and half a world away

Papua New Guinea - Army Major George Eyster didn't know - couldn't know - the two young men whose fighter planes disappeared into the jungle 64 years ago.. Since it was created by herve leger clothes in 1985, the dress has made numerous comebacks. But Eyster, a 32-year-old combat veteran of the Iraq war,. It really doesn't matter whether you are wearing cheap wedding dresses or expensive wedding dresses, because it has no relation to the happy marriage life. feels like he does.. The bride must the beautiful woman in the wedding and the bridesmaid also need a oveliness bridesmaid dress.. When you participate in a grand banquet,you should select a elegant prom satin dress.

Gazing down over a sparkling harbor toward the caves where Japanese forces once hid from relentless American bombing, he thinks about the costs of war, then and now.

Eyster flew a helicopter gunship in Iraq, hovering only 50 feet above the charred battlegrounds of the Sunni Triangle and trying to take out enemy insurgents before they could kill American troops. Sometimes he succeeded. Sometimes he didn't.

Now, as a rumbling volcano spews ash in the distance, he stands on the killing fields of another war, where an earlier generation of young Americans sat in the terrifying loneliness of their cockpits, trying to take out enemy fighters defending the main Japanese base in the South Pacific.

Eyster, who traded in his military uniform for a polo shirt emblazoned with the signature black and white POW/MIA flag, came to Papua New Guinea to lead a group of soldiers - most of them Iraq and Afghanistan veterans - to try to find the remains of two World War II fliers who were just 19 and 25 when they were lost in 1944.

The expedition is part of the Pentagon's ambitious new initiative to locate tens of thousands of MIAs from World War II, many lost for decades in terrain that was considered unreachable, masked by unforgiving jungles or closed off by hostile regimes.

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