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was the only one left and was running out of ammo. i was going to die, he remembers, and made my peace with it, and then prepared to make a last stand. bleeding and barely conscious, ryan threw his last grenades, grabbed a grenade launcher and fired nearly straight up so the grenade came back down on the enemy just yards away. one insurgent wases now right on top of the post, shooting down, until another team of americans showed up and drove him back. as one of his teammates said, had it not been for ryan pits that post almost certainly would have been overrun. even with reinforcements, the battle was not over. a another wave of rocket propelled grenades slammed into the post. nine americans were now gone. and still the fighting raged. ryan worked the radio, helping target the air strikes that were hitting dangerously close, yards away, and with those strikes the tide of the battle began to turn. eventual hill the insurgents fell back. ryan, and his fellow soldiers,

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