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SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
05-23-2009
Real Men Wear Pink Boxers

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A new image of soldierly courage appeared this week. It may not exactly remind you of Iwo Jima.

U.S. Army Specialist Zachary Boyd of the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry, who is 19, was sleeping when the Taliban attacked his unit in Afghanistan's Kunar Province. Specialist Boyd leapt from his bunk. He grabbed his weapon, pulled on his helmet and vest, and manned his station behind sandbags at Firebase Restropo. He did not stop to pull on trousers.

Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder was embedded with his unit and took a photo from ...

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