1 posted on
06/30/2005 12:15:36 PM PDT by
Ramonan
To: Ramonan
"...moved to New York City with his mother and father at the age of eight to start a new life and to avoid serving in Afghanistan with the Russian army, according to Kapitonov."
Although they received letters at Grandma's when the kid was 16 they didn't flee to avoid Afghanistan. Perhaps a translation or English problem; most likely an uneducated reporter.
2 posted on
06/30/2005 12:19:13 PM PDT by
A.B.Normal
(Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result, ask Liberal.)
To: Ramonan
“I’m pretty happy to be out here, but I wish I was in a more combat oriented MOS [Military Occupational Specialty]."Twenty years old? Plenty of time to see the elephant.
3 posted on
06/30/2005 12:32:24 PM PDT by
Snickersnee
(Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
To: Ramonan
Well, the Soviets are going to have a hard time drafting an American Citizen.
6 posted on
06/30/2005 12:48:50 PM PDT by
RetiredArmy
(Two books, the Koran and Mein Kampf, advocate violence, murder and hate!)
To: Ramonan
“He is a hard worker,” said Cpl. Ezequiel Ruiz-Hernandez, heavy equipment mechanic. Is this a great country or what!
8 posted on
06/30/2005 12:58:33 PM PDT by
Tribune7
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