David Botti
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*anthologized in: New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of New York Times
November 16, 2003
EARLY one morning last July, my rifle company boarded a convoy of trucks leaving Nasiriyah, an Iraqi city 180 miles south of Baghdad, bound for Kuwait. After tossing my pack onto a truck, I looked back at members of the Carabinieri, Italy’s military police force, who were staying....
New Jersey Towns Fears Cuts Will Change Their Way of Life
March 7, 2008
BEGINNING little more than a century ago, local historians say, this tiny town was home to one of the world’s largest snuff mills....
Qualms Over Clean Energy That Would Come From 12 Stories Up
March 22, 2008
HAMBURG Turnpike, a six-mile stretch dotted with strip malls and low-rise office buildings, does not seem like the place for innovation, and many people who live there seem just fine with that....
Frustration and Hope on the Syrian Border
August 22, 2008
ROUGHLY 250 miles northwest of Baghdad, the border between Iraq’s Ninawa province and Syria is marked by nothing more than a single dirt berm....
When Obama Comes Marching Over
July 19, 2008
AS Senator Barack Obama arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan today to meet with military commanders and U.S. troops, anticipation is brewing in the media and among campaign watchers for his expected arrival here in Iraq....
A Year Later, Lives Still Upended By Storm’s Damage
March 16, 2008
LAST April, Leo Fuentes returned home from work to find a red noticed tacked to the front door, telling him it was no longer safe to live there. A vicious northeaster 10 days earlier had damaged the retaining wall on the hill above his property, and town authorities feared the situation could set off a mudslide....
November 12, 2007
WHEN I heard Captain McKenna was going to lead a platoon of volunteers from my old reserve rifle company who were headed to Iraq, I was relieved. He’d take care of them. He was an enlisted man’s officer....
For Mass. Father, a heartbreaking reunion in Egypt
September 21, 2010
A MANCHESTER, Mass. man whose former wife allegedly kidnapped their two sons and took them back to her home country of Egypt said he saw his two boys yesterday for the first time since their disappearance 13 months ago....
November 8, 2005
I HARDLY knew Sergeant U., but as it happened I was the last person to lay a hand on his casket....
