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Military Medical Team Makes the 'Toughest Call' (GI IMPALED BY BOMB - courage abounds!!!)
ABC News ^ | 9/22/07 | Ruth Reiss

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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To: Monkey Face

Our last dog was a Husky something mix, and she was a hoot.
I’ll tell you in Freepmail.


1,361 posted on 10/23/2007 1:57:05 PM PDT by Darksheare (Jashpa the Bellygagger, Grand Knucklator of Upper Nogginota.)
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To: Darksheare

You got it!


1,362 posted on 10/23/2007 1:58:04 PM PDT by Monkey Face (It's time for Halloween, so practice safe hex.)
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To: Darksheare

Banish Mondays?

Did you have a bad Monday? Involving a truck driver?

I was thinking about the time troubles involved in banishing Wednesdays.

He said we can spread the other hours out through the week.
I can’t see how that could work, but I’m not very good at accounting.


1,363 posted on 10/23/2007 2:36:03 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: Monkey Face; Darksheare
Next in line is a wire haired fox terrier. Or maybe it’s the other way around....

A terrier fox haired wire?

1,364 posted on 10/23/2007 2:38:36 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: Monkey Face
thanks, dear.

free dixie SMOOCH,sw

1,365 posted on 10/23/2007 2:45:22 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)
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To: stand watie

Wekkum.

*smooch*


1,366 posted on 10/23/2007 2:57:48 PM PDT by Monkey Face (It's time for Halloween, so practice safe hex.)
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To: fanfan

Er...NOT!

LOL!


1,367 posted on 10/23/2007 3:02:30 PM PDT by Monkey Face (It's time for Halloween, so practice safe hex.)
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To: fanfan

Had a bad Monday evening/Tuesday morning.
The idiots were out in force, and traveling in packs.
They are also extremely oblivious to reality.


1,368 posted on 10/23/2007 3:12:33 PM PDT by Darksheare (Jashpa the Bellygagger, Grand Knucklator of Upper Nogginota.)
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To: Monkey Face
fwiw, i LIKE your tag-line. it's PUNNY.

free dixie SMOOCH,sw

1,369 posted on 10/23/2007 3:14:59 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)
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To: stand watie

I have a button that has a witch on it that says “Practice safe hex.” I got it when I was working, and I thought it would fit right in here! LOL!

*smooch*


1,370 posted on 10/23/2007 3:22:14 PM PDT by Monkey Face (It's time for Halloween, so practice safe hex.)
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To: Monkey Face
what would "safe hex" consist of, i wonder??

free dixie SMOOCH,sw

1,371 posted on 10/23/2007 3:28:48 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)
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To: stand watie

Ask your friendly neighborhood witch! LOL!

I have no clue! *smooch*


1,372 posted on 10/23/2007 3:30:37 PM PDT by Monkey Face (It's time for Halloween, so practice safe hex.)
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To: Monkey Face

Found a truther.
Be back in a bit.


1,373 posted on 10/23/2007 3:58:33 PM PDT by Darksheare (The shark ate everything I loved, except me eye. My wife took that.)
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To: Darksheare

‘K.


1,374 posted on 10/23/2007 4:01:24 PM PDT by Monkey Face (It's time for Halloween, so practice safe hex.)
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To: stand watie; Monkey Face

Howzit, General and lady? I’ve been wonking on costumes for my Numerous Offspring, as the long-awaited rain falls in occasional buckets. (Catz are annoyed that we closed the windows.)

We’ve got two Harry Potter characters (Nymphadora Tonks and James Potter); the Spirit of Kudzu Smothering the South (Tom, in acid-green velour robes, with kudzu garlands); the Empress of Rome; Ruby, the Red Fairy; Captain Midnight; the Goa’uld Nirrti (myself, in my purple Pakistani outfit with several shades of orange embroidery); Wednesday, the Hallowe’en kitty (U B SKAYRD!); and two small boys with heads like cinder blocks.

The great thing about all this is that I only have to sew up the Spirit of Kudzu robes and do minor alterations on Tonks’ long black vest. The rest is colorful sweatsuits and safety pins!


1,375 posted on 10/23/2007 4:05:34 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("For is he not of noble birth? The first child born above the Earth!")
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To: Monkey Face

Truther squished.
They put the “Alex Jones” card in play, with a “Gulf of Tonkin incident was a setup” as one of their corner cards.


1,376 posted on 10/23/2007 4:17:04 PM PDT by Darksheare (The shark ate everything I loved, except me eye. My wife took that.)
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To: Tax-chick; stand watie; Monkey Face; fanfan
"... and two small boys with heads like cinder blocks."

Is that before or after the costuming?

Nirrti could be invisible, if I remember correctly, and she had a certain "air" about her.

1,377 posted on 10/23/2007 4:38:44 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("Global warming alarmists predict worldwide starvation. ... They’re creating it." -- Tom McClintock)
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To: Tax-chick
Like I said: You ROCK!!!
1,378 posted on 10/23/2007 4:52:47 PM PDT by Monkey Face (It's time for Halloween, so practice safe hex.)
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To: Darksheare

*fans away the thick grey smoke from the zotted troll*


1,379 posted on 10/23/2007 4:56:49 PM PDT by darkangel82 (And the band played on....)
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To: NicknamedBob

Pat’s being Invisible. If Nirrti is invisible, nobody will be able to admire her embroidery.


1,380 posted on 10/23/2007 5:04:54 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("For is he not of noble birth? The first child born above the Earth!")
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