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The view from above

By Wayne Drehs
ESPN.com

Thursday, September 25, 2003

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- As the helicopter begins to levitate, begins to lift itself from the safe securities of land and ascend into the choppy unknown above, you wonder -- for the fourth time in five seconds -- why aren't there any doors again? Some six inches separate the tips of your toes from the edge of the sky. The only thing holding you to your canvas seat, the only thing keeping you from falling to a horrific death, is a standard-issue seatbelt. Your left hand, clinging mercilessly to the c ...

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