Imperial holdover: Gurkhas flock to British army

Sunday, May 18, 2008

POKHARA, Nepal -- Two centuries later, young men are still being drawn from their poverty-stricken Himalayan hills by the thousands to fight -- and die -- with legendary valor for another man's country far away.

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