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Chapter 1

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Powers, Kevin. The Yellow Birds. Little, Brown and Company, 2012. First Edition.

• Private John Bartle remembers when he and his friend Private Daniel Murphy (Murph) were in Al Tafar on the Nineveh plains in Iraq in September of 2004.

• In the spring his Army unit had patrolled the hills beyond the cities and towns.

• In the summer it seemed to Bartle that the war would go on forever.

• By September the war had killed thousands of civilians, whose bodies were found all over the city.

• By September, not quite 1,000 soldiers had died.

• Bartle and Murph did not want to be the 1,000th soldier to die.

• They and their fellow soldiers spent four days crawling along rooftops.

• They slipped and slid on the loose brass casings left from earlier days of fighting.

• Bartle lifted his head to...

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