Somewhere in the desert in Kuwait, Feb. 1, 2003: A crew from the 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division readies their M1-A1 Abrams tank at a camp in the Kuwaiti desert near the so-called Highway of Death. The road where American airpower destroyed a long column of retreating Iraqi armor in the first Gulf War is back in business. But this time, thousands of U.S. troops, tanks and artillery pieces are heading north on the barren road from Kuwait City to Baghdad with a different purpose.

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