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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:40 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:45 am
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:43 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:23 am
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:49 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:48 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:18 pm
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Xhaing LET me get straight to the point, my Grampa died in Vietnam by a cut to his throat by a freakin Vietnemese soilder and amzeingly he survived for 2 more hours eek but, he was unable to talk or able to move much. those vietnamese men were deadly because they were getting a sneak attack ready and my Grampa signaled a flare and soon it was a big battle and in the end, we lost. I miss my Grampa so much , i even cried when i saw him, The general told me that he died a soilder and that i should be very proud and i was, but that wasnt goin to bring him back. It even hurts me to say this ,but i had to tell someone outside my faimly
*Pats you on the back.* You have my greatest condolences.... I don't know what to say to you, so I'll just simply say the same thing as the general. He gave his life the soldier's way, but it was NOT in vain... He died for his country, and his country will remember him for that always and forever. There is nothing more noble and honorable in this world than to make that ultimate sacrafice in the defense of liberty....
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:59 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:08 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:57 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:18 am
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Xhaing LET me get straight to the point, my Grampa died in Vietnam by a cut to his throat by a freakin Vietnemese soilder and amzeingly he survived for 2 more hours eek but, he was unable to talk or able to move much. those vietnamese men were deadly because they were getting a sneak attack ready and my Grampa signaled a flare and soon it was a big battle and in the end, we lost. I miss my Grampa so much , i even cried when i saw him, The general told me that he died a soilder and that i should be very proud and i was, but that wasnt goin to bring him back. It even hurts me to say this ,but i had to tell someone outside my faimly
my great uncle was also in the vietnemese war when he was 21, he was a gunner i believe and his unit was attacked, blown completly up, his whole unit died except for him he was the only one that survived but at the cost of severe burns all over his body, his right ear is pretty much burned off almost, but since he was so badly burned he was unable to return to the feild. but it amazes me that he is still alive and what he went through my mother tells me she still remembers when he was in the hospital and she saw him.
im sorry for your loss but your gramps died as a hero ^_^ and for a good cause. god rest his soul and all the others that died also.
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:17 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:14 pm
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I was in One Station Unit Training for infantry in Ft. Benning, GA, when 9/11 happened...Only a month from graduation. As soon as I graduated from OSUT, I shipped in to airborne training and was assigned to my unit with the 82nd Airborne. I was one of the first US soldiers in Iraq after 9/11. AFter only a couple of weeks, my platoon was stationed in a friendly village...there to protect them from nearby alqaeda raiders. While my squad (9 people) was out on patrol one day, we were attacked by a large band of Alqaeda fighters. we were outnumbered by either 5 or 6. I was the heavy machine gunner in the squad, carrying the M240B medium machinegun. Being the heavy gunner, I was the first target. A grenade was thrown at me and my squadleader stepped in front in time to take the brunt of the blast. However, I was still wounded in the left side by several pieces of schrapnel...I was also at some point during the fight, hit in the right knee by a round from an AK47, which wedged itself under my kneecap. knowing that if I died, my squad would be doomed, I continued to fight, the enemy closed fast and soon, they were too close for my machinegun to be effective. I then had to turn to facing them with my k-bar. During that fight, I lost 4 of my best friends...The medics who got the wounded out said they were surprised I was even still alive. Because of our efforts, nearly 40 enemy fighters were kill and another twenty were wounded and captured. Because of us, not a single villager was injured or killed. Keep the families and friends of those four soldiers in your thoughts and prayers and let their memories live on and forever be respected.
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 3:41 am
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