Of course!
Here's one from Paris last year. A week after we passed through (LoM, a Japanese colleague and friend, and myself) there were riots right here.
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 does make sense, but, ......OTOH, all our drugs are being made in China.
Suspicious this seems, to me.
After all those times as a kid always being sick with something, I got tired of it.
I stay as far away as I can from anything made in China. They remind me of the Japanese, after WWII ~~ they were going to defeat us, they said, but they would do it economically.
I was sick, too, with strep throat, measles, chicken pox, rheumatic fever, etc.
They’re just part of childhood, and I think my immune system is stronger for it.
Want to be really paranoid?
Do you grocery shop?
You pick up packages, bottles, and cans that have been handled by someone else,
Usually a snotty faced 14 yr.old shelf stocker.
Sorry.
You probably won;t sleep tonight.
I know I won’t.
;-)
Of course!
Here's one from Paris last year. A week after we passed through (LoM, a Japanese colleague and friend, and myself) there were riots right here.
I had chicken pox,strep twice, and numerous other nasty bugs and junk. I hated always being sick.
I went to the grocery store yesterday. I just wash my hands when I get back.
We don’t have a telephone table. The telephone is mounted on the wall in the kitchen, near the toaster and a large pile of Debris. It’s possible that the remote is under the Debris, although we’ve rummaged a couple of times.
Good thing you don't have my job -- I have to say some of the vaccinations I've had to get are a little worrisome.
You’ll look very nice! I don’t know what I’ll wear. Maybe something of Anoreth’s, since I’ve put on a few pounds. I’ll have to iron; she keeps her clothes in a mess.
We had a saying when I was a kid: “I don’t GET hydrophobia (or anything else you care to name). I GIVE it.”
I shop. I push the carts, I pick up the stuff, handle money, etc. I even eat out, and the idea of someone else handling the stuff before I do has never bothered me.
:o])
Ouch lol. That bad, huh?
There's speculation that many allergies are due to underworked immune systems. They're correlated the increase in allergies to the increase in wealth and cleanliness in a number of countries around the world.
Well, since Hallowe’en is Wednesday, and I won’t see the church folks until next Sunday, I figure the least I can do is give the kids something to like! I usually sit in the back where people come in, so they pretty much HAVE to look! LOL!
I’ve lost 40 pounds since August, so some of my clothes won’t fit any more. My black outfit will...
I had pneumonia or broncistis every winter for years before I became fed up enough to fight it.
Damn germs, they think they’re smart. Not on my watch.
I’m off for the night.
Have fun everyone.
Good for you!
Have a good evening - I’m off to sift for the remote again.
I believe it. We washed our hands before we ate, and my mother used the same cutting board for meats, vegetables and bread.
We all got colds and once in a while, we’d get the flu, but not too often. The rest of the time, it was the “childhood diseases” (including pertussis when I was two) and we all survived.
I had pneumonia twice, and the second time, when I was 14, was really bad.
They're pretty good with the shots now, not like the series I had to get before going to visit my grandfather in the central Mexico highlands in the 60s. My arms were sore for days!
But they sometimes have other effects -- LoM's ill-feeling is due to the live virus typhoid they gave her. The malaria medication I had to take in India left me with a sore neck the whole time (I am SO happy that in November in Cairo I don't have to take that stuff).
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