LOL. Okay, Here's Dawn Eden (Dawn Patrol blog fame).
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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The World Series is going on? Who’s in it?
I’m taking a break from “History of Argentina,” but will soon be going to bed with it. The catz are renegotiating their personal boundaries rather loudly.
You could post pictures of any fun Anglican broads.
Boston and Colorado. A Boston win here will make them champs for the 2nd time in 3 years.
Thanks! My priest is from Boston, so we hear a lot about sports when the Red Sox or Patriots are doing well. He’s a good guy, anyway ...
So, what'cha drinking tonight, Chickie?
LOL. Okay, Here's Dawn Eden (Dawn Patrol blog fame).
Sebeka Pinotage. South African red.
I read Dawn Eden’s book, “The Thrill of the Chaste,” or something like that. It was really good.
That is it exactly. Advertised on her blog: http://www.dawneden.com/blogger.html
I’ll bet there’s cheese somewhere nearby, too.
You are so decadent.
It was in the Union West Regional Library, a terrific place which I am happy to support with my tax dollars and Friends of the Library donations.
I thought Ms. Eden’s discussion of chastity was among the best I’ve seen. She really made the case for chastity as a duty to yourself and your hopes for lifelong happiness.
No cheese, but I had a piece of whole wheat bread with peanut butter a few minutes ago, and I’ll have a large drink of water before bed.
Here’s Shannon, with a large purr. I guess Wednesday has adequately restated her dominant position for now.
Time to feed the catz and get the aforementioned water. Early start to the day tomorrow. The Big Van is making a noise that sounds like “new brakes.”
My vehicle doesn't seem to be quite right, but it's something I barely sense rather than anything I can point to explicitly.
Rest well. Moanday comes soon enough.
Bummer...corporate IT set up Symantec anti-virus on my machine with the group settings in the registry locking it out for user changes - and, of course, it kills my email connection to my home email.
I’m not a Symantec/Norton fan at all. Peter Norton was great in the days of the 8088/80286, but his name has lost all value sometime between then and now.
Now I’ve got to kill off those services before checking my email from home. Too bad msconfig doesn’t have a batch processor/interpreter inside it! Oh well, such are the woes of changing employers...they all have their own policies.
Too funny!
Google-imaging is bad for your eyes, you know.
Quite!
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