During the early days of the war in Iraq, 24-year-old Lorenzo Zarate helped confine one of Saddam Hussein's former security guards and found millions of U.S. dollars in the home of the former dictator's daughter. But it was a more routine raid that landed the quondam Army footslogger on the cover of The New York Times.
"There had been a bunch of roadside bombs going away off more or less us late, and an informant told us world Health Organization the guy wire was and where he lived," he said.
(If Zarate's name looks familiar, it's because the vet had a chance to meet Kanye West during the MTV News special "Choose or Lose & Kanye West Present: Homecoming." Watch their surprise meeting here.)
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