 | True Face of The Great War !| World War I Discuss True Face of The Great War ! in the Other Eras forums; Thanks for sharing that, syscom. That's a touching little story actually.... |
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10-08-2005, 07:55 PM
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#31 | | He who does not skim
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10-08-2005, 08:33 PM
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#32 | | "Shooter"
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10-08-2005, 10:44 PM
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Country: | When I was in Afghanistan, me and my squad had just finished our shift, a lady had ran to Mckenzie our feild surgeon, she was holding her daughter whose legs had been blown off, she must had stepped on a landmine anyway the little girl had already bled to death, I just had to say this because **** is still happening in Afghanistan I have heard from friends in the PPLIC that there are numerous confrontations and scrimages with gunmen who work for the warlords the next town over, and that the medi centers are always packed with people who tripped landmines.
The country is extremely poor, the central government is not organized enough to govern its country so now we got warlords runnig small villages all over Afghanistan, smuggling weapons from pakistan to arm their militia, and have reopened their Grow-ops.
If nothing changes within the next 2-5 years we could have another Somalia incident which means Ill probably have to go back and we will have more gruesome pics to moan about.
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10-09-2005, 06:05 AM
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#34 | | He who does not skim
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Country: | So you're really with JTF 2? By the way, you mean your friends are in the "PPCLI" don't you? | |
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10-09-2005, 02:19 PM
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#35 | | Der Crewchief
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Originally Posted by evangilder War is hell. It's kind of strange, but I am kind of numb to pictures like that. After things I saw during the "war on drugs" in Central and South America, nothing seems shocking anymore. The messed up thing is that I know they should shock me. | You are correct. The pictures dont really bother me it is just that I hope we never have to see stuff like that on such a large scale. As you said War is Hell. After 10 months of Kosovo and 1 year in Iraq and flying fallen soldiers and wounded soldiers and seeing Iraqi's get blown up the site of a dead body and or of blood and guts does not really bother me anymore. I sort of have learned just to put it away and get on with my life and do my job. In Iraq that was the only way to survive.
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10-09-2005, 03:20 PM
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#36 | | "Shooter"
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10-11-2005, 01:17 AM
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Country:  | Thats a really good post Sy gives a bit of personal insight to war all that is needed is for people to multiply it by several million times and each of those guys in the pictures had families and a life that ended before they had a fair crack of the whip.
My old man was fine after the war then had nightmares in the early 60's and not related to anything he saw or did the blood,guts burns ect never effected him much at the time.
It was always the same dream of a squad of Japanese bayoneting him it suddenly stopped after a couple of years. It affects everyone differently .
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10-11-2005, 05:34 AM
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#38 | | Der Crewchief
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10-11-2005, 07:53 AM
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10-11-2005, 09:12 AM
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#40 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | Hmm, I have the book. I haven't gotten a chance to read lately. One of the neat things in the book is a picture of his father and grandfather together on the deck of the USS Missouri during the surrender document signing in Tokyo Bay.
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10-12-2005, 05:07 AM
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#41 | | Der Crewchief
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12-09-2005, 01:30 AM
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12-09-2005, 02:25 PM
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#43 | | Der Crewchief
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12-09-2005, 02:27 PM
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