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Our Flag Flying Proudly One Nation Under God
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Lord, Please Bless Our Troops, they're fighting for our Freedom.
Prayers going up.
Posted on 09/20/2006 6:01:45 PM PDT by fatima
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Lord, Please Bless Our Troops, they're fighting for our Freedom.
Prayers going up.
Does that mean pulling out the hairspray??? LOL
Good evening Allegra. Hope your enjoying your leave & your furbabies!
Some of my fellow employees, captured one in a non-disclosable location somewhere in that part of the world. He(?) was "enlisted" into the pugilistic arts. He was called Jeffery Dahmer, because of his championship gustatory proclivities. His single loss came to the entomologists who frowned upon the practice.
ROFLOL!
Hi Connie,Here's a true story.
Dec 24th, 2005
I am a desert storm vet and had an unfortunate run in with one of these things in 1991. Anyway, this is my short story. . . We were in Saudi Arabia about ½ an hour from the Iraq border. It was just after the ground war and we were on a forward mission to setup tents for the rest of our company who were still in Iraq. I was sitting on my cot and had moved a box containing food when one of these things scampered out between my legs, just inches from my hand. Having never seen something like this before I overreacted a little bit. I screamed like a little girl, flung back my body, and tumbled head over heals to ground. As the rest of the tent laughed at me, one of my buddies said “there it goes” and it disappeared under the side of the tent. Those little buggers blend in real well with the desert sand. We never saw another one in the area and I was really glad. To my recollection, it was only 8 to 10 inches long, moved quickly, and never made any screaming sounds. I was the one making the screaming sound. It sure did scary the heck out of me but it was just as scared of me as I was of it.
Thanks for today's thread!
Thank you Tonk.:)
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Evening Miss Hope....hand over heart & prayers up!
Thank you HopeandGlory.
YyyyyyyyYYYYYyyyyyyyYYYYYYyyyyyyYYYYYYYYYyyyyyyikes!
LOL, if it's true, I don't want to know.
I would tend to believe that it isn't.
What a story.
...a bushel basket maybe.
Hey! This is serious. Heh heh heh...
They wrote it to win a T Shirt:)Hehe
Eeeeewwwww!! He ATE a camel spider?
Ah...so you've had a run-in with one, too. LOL
Thank you for your service!
Darling husband never saw a camel spider while in Iraq, but they all got into the habit of shaking the boots upside down before putting them on in the mornings. He did experience a few of those ferocious-looking sandstorms, however.
May the Lord bless and protect our brave troops. Each and every day, our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Wow, Fatima...that is a buncha strange stuff. Ick on the spiders. I think our tarantulas are quite big enough, thand you very much! LOL!
Thanks for opening the Canteen for us tonight, sweetie! (((hugs)))
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