On April 7 , 1945 Sergeant Okutsu's platoon in the Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team was halted by machine-gun crossfire during the fighting for Mount Belvedere, astride the road leading north to Bologna.
Amidst heavy shelling and machine-gun crossfire, the attack stalled following the loss of almost all of the officers in the assaulting companies; nevertheless, despite progress on their left, they succeeded in capturing part of the German line, but were ordered to withdraw the following day.
Having lived in several high-crime cities where innocents are caught in the crossfire of gun violence, I've come to see gun control as a public health and safety issue.
Civilians are often caught in the crossfire of gun battles.
The worse, however, for the truly innocent who get caught in the crossfire of gun violence.
"But when innocent children are caught in the crossfire of gun violence... our consciences are shaken and our hearts are broken".
Drug and gang violence has cemented public opinion to such a degree that it is next to impossible to try and argue for ending prohibition when little kids are still getting gunned down in the crossfire and sucked into the machine of the drug trade.
The official version of Mr. Jackson's death was that he was caught by accident in the crossfire of a gun battle between the Special Air Service, the army's elite undercover unit, and an armed unit of the Irish Republican Army.
Others fired back and partygoers were caught in the crossfire as the gun battle spilled into the driveway.
Before the new Congress takes its seats, the NRA could have its Facebook page back up again, and we could be back to arguing over protecting the freedom of Americans to own guns instead of the freedom to drop our kids off at school without fearing they'll find themselves in the middle of a shooting rampage or in the crossfire of a gun fight.
The truck that they hit first got caught in a crossfire from machine guns.
