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TOM BROKAW: Time
Magazine's Baghdad Bureau Chief Michael Ware has been
traveling with the Army's 2nd Battalion/2nd Infantry
Regiment, the soldiers who were in the first vehicles
that entered Fallujah on Monday. Ware has been
shooting his own video along the way, and tonight we
have some scenes from a battle that took place on a
rooftop overlooking a mosque and a school being used
by the insurgents. Time Magazine's Michael Ware
tonight, in his own words.
MICHAEL WARE: They were taking fire from all
directions. It was impossible to tell where it was
going to come from next. They dug in for two or three
hours, repelling each enemy attack, looking for the
snipers who were trying to pick them off from hidden
vantage points in the surrounding buildings.
This army unit proceeded in their tanks and their
armored Bradley fighting vehicles, pushing through
the resistance fighters. From the rooftops, they were
able to engage the insurgents, using every weapon at
their disposal, from missiles to heavy machine guns
to grenade launchers.
There was the smell of blood, there was the grit and
the grime in which we were encased, there was the
confusion of battle -- the screams, the fear, the
adrenaline.
So many of them can barely be described as men.
They're boys, baby-faced, some of them fresh out of
high school. They are going to be doing this all
night, they're going to be doing this all day
tomorrow. And even though many of us believe that
we're coming to the end of this dreadful battle for
Fallujah, for them, this engagement in many ways is
far from over.