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Where Were You When Saddam Hussein’s Statue Came Down?

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Where Were You When Saddam Hussein’s Statue Came Down?
U.S. Air Force Walking Patrol in Baghdad. DoD photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Todd Frantom.
Battlefields Staff
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Saddam Hussein’s statue was pulled down on April 9, 2003. I doubt many civilians old enough to remember it could say where they were when they first saw those images. But for those in the military at the time, even 20 years later, I bet that you do. Before I tell you where I was, I’m going to tell you how I got there.

Mike Warnock is the editor-in-chief of The Havok Journal, an Air Force (USAF) veteran, and retired Army Nurse Corps officer. After working 10 years as both a civilian Operating Room (OR) nurse and USAF OR nurse, he served in the Army from 2007–2019. The majority of his 23 years of professional civilian and military service were spent in clinical nursing, which included working in several ORs, in various clinical leadership and staff officer positions, with two deployments to Iraq.
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