Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, was in town Thursday for Fort Benning’s Officer Candidate School graduation of 152 newly minted second lieutenants.
It was 6 a.m. on Nov. 16, 1989, when a gardener named Obdulio Ramos saw that six Jesuit priests and his wife and daughter had been gunned down by soldiers in El Salvador.
In a transfer of authority ceremony to take place while most Americans were asleep, the 172nd Infantry Brigade in Iraq was to relinquish responsibility to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.
