Heroes' stories told in leaked Wiki documents

A TALE OF WAR
Heroes' stories told in leaked documents
By Edward Colimore

Inquirer Staff Writer

With public information about the battle still sketchy, Cynthia Woodard could only imagine how her son died last fall as hundreds of insurgents swarmed over his combat outpost in Afghanistan.

The Northeast Philadelphia woman had searched an Army report and found many pages blank or covered with dashes and garbled characters for privacy or security reasons.

Nothing adequately described the attack that claimed her son, Spec. Michael Scusa, 22, of Villas, Cape May County, and seven comrades on Oct. 3, 2009 - one of the deadliest days of America's longest war.

Then, last week, for the first time, Woodard read a running narrative of computer messages typed by U.S. soldiers that pulled back the curtain on the desperate battle.

" . . . we are taking casiltys," wrote one of the soldiers in a frantic call for help filled with misspellings.
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