{"id":1928,"date":"2004-04-15T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2004-04-15T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T03:13:00","slug":"gunfire-like-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/04\/15\/23\/13\/gunfire-like-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire Like Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

[The Marines] have orders to shoot any male of military age on the streets after dark, armed or not … Sometimes the gunfire was so long and steady it sounded like rain … Brent Bourgeois, a 20-year-old lance corporal from Kenner, La., said he had seen an American helicopter fire a missile at a man with a slingshot … “It’s the fight that never came last year,” Major Petrucci said. “I guess these guys didn’t really want to die for Saddam. But all this anti-American feeling is now uniting them.”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[The Marines] have orders to shoot any male of military age on the streets after dark, armed or not … Sometimes the gunfire was so long and steady it sounded like rain … Brent...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t