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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 09:54 PM
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Niece's friend home from Iraq.... his best friend killed by
sniper while he was here.

This is the same kid whose mess tent got blown up early in the war, killing another buddy... he was not in it, because his mom sent him cereal.

This is one lucky kid, man.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 09:56 PM
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1. He has some stories to tell
I'd love to hear them

I think that we all should hear them
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 09:59 PM
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2. I hate this war but I really admire the troops for what they're going thru
It takes a LOT of courage and training and discipline to keep it together over there. We owe them every ounce of energy toward ending this madness.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:02 PM
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3. I am going to keep chatting with him via
email over this deployment... he has to go back Tues

I will let everyone know
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:06 PM
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4. I pray that he stays lucky.
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:09 PM
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5. There is evidently a group of genius snipers there
They take only one shot, and they are accurate. They break down their guns, but them in a backpack and merge into the crowd. And they are highly lethal. They shoot right into the face or into the back of the neck. And we haven't caught a single one.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:12 PM
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7. They must be hunters from the desert or something
Edited on Sun Aug-14-05 10:13 PM by sasquatch
Remember: Starving men on the Russian Ural mountains made the best snipers, not American cowboys.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 10:12 PM
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6. Not so lucky to witness the death of a friend.
Same thing happened to my dad's best friend WWII, right next to him in a foxhole on Corregidor. My dad was a tortured man his entire life.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 11:26 PM
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8. NO, he was here in the US on a short leave
that is why he was lucky.
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