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“I just screamed and didn’t know what to do,” Taylor
It was just his fourth day in Afghanistan. After arriving to his platoon, bullets began to pierce the sky. He was in his first gunfire exchange. Basic training had taught him a lot, but nothing could have prepared him for this.
Airborne Infantry Long Range Weapons Expert Taylor Nordt
At the monthly Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting in Rosenberg, everyone that surrounded the group were fellow veterans, but Taylor and his friends are the youngest in the room. The others inside the military insignia-filled walls of the building all seemed to know each other, greeting one another with a smile and a warm handshake. But Taylor and his close knit group of friends sit alone at a table.
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Nordt said. “If they started running, I started running.”
