Mar 19, 2013 | bostonherald.com
Ten years on, soldier recalls Iraq invasion
On March 19, 2003, Brockton native Luke Devlin, now 32, was a 22-year-old 2nd lieutenant, a 7th Cavalry tank platoon leader camped on the Iraqi border, about to cross what the Army called the Line of Departure as part of the 3rd Infantry Division's historic move north to take Baghdad and topple Saddam Hussein.
A U.S. soldier looks through a pair of binoculars as a fire in the Rumeila oil field burns in the background in southern of Iraq, Sunday, March.