Sentences with phrase «junior officers marching»

Now, in Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back fifteen years before that momentous conflict, when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican - American War.

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On a freezing Tuesday in March 2009, my alarm blared at 4:00 a.m.. By 6:45, I stood shivering outside a housing project in the South Bronx with Lieutenant John Fitzpatrick and three junior officers, fresh - faced graduates of the Academy.