Calvey Escapes Baghdad Mortar Blasts

Army Captain Kevin Calvey, former member of the Oklahoma House and 2006 congressional candidate, blogs from Baghdad that a pair of mortar rounds fell near him and injured a friend: "A few days ago, I was out in the Red Zone one morning, as usual, when two mortars hit us nearby. I was in an Iraqi building, about 100 feet away, when they hit. I heard and felt them hit, and looked out the heavy-glass window of the building in the direction from which the BOOMs came, just in time to see the dust rising from the points of impact. We evacuated the building. I soon learned that a friend of mine in my unit had been outside when they hit. Schrapnel from the mortars had ripped a hole through his bicep. A trail of his blood was evident on the ground as we walked out, and a pool of blood lay on the floor where he had run inside after getting hit. He had been evacuated immediately." (Read all of Calvey's post at http://blog.newsok.com/calveyiniraq.)

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