Posted on 09/23/2007 7:46:56 AM PDT by paulat
Unexploded Rocket-Propelled Grenade Impales Army Private in Afghanistan By RUTH REISS
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One RPG skidded past Lt. Mariani's vehicle. All of the vehicles had to quickly get out of the "kill zone." But before they could get to safety, two rockets hit Pvt. Moss' Humvee.
Staff Sgt. Eric Wynn, 33, the soldier in the front passenger seat, felt one slice through his face. Moss remembers the truck practically lift up. He was thrown up against the Humvee and then moved to return fire.
"I smelled something smoking and I looked down ... and I was smoking," he said.
Wynn turned to tell Moss where to fire and saw the tail fins of the RPG sticking out of Moss' side.
Roughly the length of a baseball bat, an RPG travels at the speed of a bullet. At the front end is the warhead -- a large grenade. The detonator and fuel are contained in the shaft. On the back are its fins, pieces of metal that stick out like legs on a camera tripod. The RPG is the weapon of choice for many of the world's guerillas.
Luckily for Moss, the company medic Spc. Jared Angell, 23, who the soldiers call "Doc," was in his Humvee
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A Human Bomb The RPG that had plowed into Moss' lower abdomen stretched from one hip to the other. If the RPG went off, it would kill everyone within 30 feet of him. Yet Angell stayed close, bandaging his wounds and stabilizing the weapon so that movement wouldn't cause it to explode.
Moss was still fully conscious, so Angell ordered him to not look down at the injury. He didn't want Moss to panic.
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It’s to the place, now, where I highlight my whole post, right-click and “Copy” before I hit “Post”; especially if it’s a long post I’ve invested some real time/thought into.
Yep, the post-eating gremlins are still on here.
Wednesday uses the scratching post very nicely. Shannon is scratching other stuff, too; we need to trim both their claws.
Our furniture is getting pretty worn out, what with all the little boys, so scratching isn’t that big a deal.
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You can’t just “backspace” and have your pre-posting screen return? That works for me.
Thinking about a strawberry blonde?
It depends upon the actual source of the error. I’ve run across instances where hitting the “Back” button didn’t work.
Just a thought. I don’t know a thing about how any of this works!
A strawberry blonde?
You realize I’m going to have to go into a Decline now, because I’m so unbelievably old ...
“Casey would waltz with a strawberry blonde as the band played on.
He’d glide ‘crost the floor with the girl he adored as the band played on ....”
Very popular song around 1912.
Oh, well the song I was quoting is considerably newer than that lol.
I didn’t realize there was a modern song using the same line. My teenagers use headphones ... and even when they don’t, I can’t understand most of the words, anyway. (They say they can’t understand, either.)
Speaking of words, we were listening to “The Who” on the Sirius radio last night coming home from church, and the display showed, “Mama’s Got a Squeeze-Box.” I’d always thought the line was, “Mama’s gotta sneeze, but Daddy never sleeps at night.” Mondegreens ...
LOL, I always mishear lyrics too. Some of the albums I own are older than me, since today’s mainstream music is so awful.
I agree. I love 40’s and 50’s country and folk music, because that’s what my parents had on records when I was growing up. “The Kingston Trio”! Magnificent harmonies and above-average banjo :-).
Ah, here you have the insidious secret of their marketing strategy. Before you can decipher the words, you have to listen, and listen, and listen several more times, until you can puzzle out all the words of the song.
By the time you realize that this garbage is something you really don't want in your brain, it's far, far too late.
Thus the kids brainwash themselves. That zombie look is there for a reason.
I don’t have any kids but sometimes when you read the words of what you’re listening to, you won’t want to listen to it again.
We have rules about what CD’s they can buy. Anoreth picked up a “Motley Crue” CD at the neighborhood yard sale recently, and I made her take it back.
I don’t think they hear the words, mostly. The instrumentation is such deafening noise that they can’t! I figure that if it’s “Christian” heavy metal, the message they can’t decipher is some kind of religious-y, anyway. At least not about sex or drugs!
(If it was up to me, we’d have nothing but classical and folk, but their Dad approved the rock thing ... besides, bluegrass is loaded with murder ballads of the most graphic sort!)
That's why I made Anoreth return "Motley Crue." I read the lyrics!
This seems like an opportunity to pick up 2,000. If not, at least I get a pair of 9’s.
Slow month!
2,000
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