Studying English - from Reader's Digest

1. Now, at the Baghdad intersection, Sarver’s team kneel in the dirt, and, like squires attending a knight, adjust his armor.
2. At 10 feet out, the point of no return, he gets the adrenaline surge he calls The Morbid Thrill.
3. “It’s a numbing, sobering time, it’s the loneliest spot on earth.”
4. As the Humvee rattles down the road, Sarver, lost in thought, stares out the window at the blazing Iraqi sunset. I like what I do, he thinks to himself.
5. Soon it will be dark, curfew time.
6. With a glance he could suss out any bomb’s architecture.
7. making him one of ten Army bomb techs to die in the field as of November 2005.
8. when fatigue, distraction and homesickness can dull a soldier’s instincts.
9. “When you’re 10 feet away from it,” he says, “you get comfortable because you’re at the point of no return.”