Michael Yon, providing the best coverage from Iraq (and receives no financial support from any news organization), writes about second chances in this latest dispatch from the field. He also has a few choice things to say about The New Republic:
"The story of General Petraeus getting accidentally shot in the chest is a case in point. One of his own soldiers had pulled the trigger. Normally, something very bad would have happened to that soldier and his commander. Instead Petraeus sent that soldier to Ranger School, and his Captain (Fred Johnson) was promoted early. In June, I witnessed LTC Fred Johnson helping to restore security and rebuild Baqubah. Fred Johnson is a believer in second chances. ...."
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