1.   Ammo dumps were being detonated by incoming mortars and rockets, and all hell was breaking loose.

2.   Hunching his shoulders, grimacing and clenching his fists, he scanned the sky as if expecting incoming mortar rounds, not birds.

3.   Unable to see much of anything, they waited, listening to the whine of incoming mortar shells and feeling the ground tremors as shells landed.

4.   But the spiraling whistle of incoming Ethiopian mortars pierced the calm, and they lunged for cover.

5.   But the spiraling whistle of incoming Ethiopian mortars pierce the calm in another day along the scenic frontline of the border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

6.   During the fighting in Hue, the sound of Tet holiday firecrackers mixed with the rattle of gunfire and the thud of incoming mortars.

7.   Many women, confused, dived into a ditch exposed to the incoming mortar fire, their fingers tearing desperately at the dirt as shells pounded around them.

8.   One group of women, confused, dived into a ditch exposed to the incoming mortar fire, their fingers tearing desperately at the dirt.