April 4

[Strychnine]

No idea. Not enough to kill me.

GD, if that aint the most stoically inspiring shit since Marcus Aurelius...

I will ask just one thing of you all if you would. Lift a glass or, if you don't drink, pause a moment tomorrow for my brothers who were injured or didn't make it home and their families. That's all. Drink to their honor or pause to remember their sacrifice.

Cheers, Jim. To you and them.

[Forever_frost]

In all the times I've read your story about this I don't know if this came up. Other than the obvious... how many rounds into plates did you soak up?

No idea. Not enough to kill me. I'll try to find a picture of my vest, it's not very impressive. The SAPE take hits and keep together pretty well but here's our gear when we dropped everything that night, while we were resupplying and getting water and ammo.

[Craizie]

I'm glad to have you around as well. Guys, I will ask just one thing of you all if you would.

Lift a glass or, if you don't drink, pause a moment tomorrow for my brothers who were injured or didn't make it home and their families. That's all. Drink to their honor or pause to remember their sacrifice.

DFWM meet?

[Gargamel]

I'm glad to have you around as well. Guys, I will ask just one thing of you all if you would.

Lift a glass or, if you don't drink, pause a moment tomorrow for my brothers who were injured or didn't make it home and their families. That's all. Drink to their honor or pause to remember their sacrifice.

Consider it done...

[bird_dog0347]

A good read every year, thanks!

[Strychnine]

acknowledged the slight push back of rounds impacting the SAPE plates on my chest and back as I opened the feed tray cover

In all the times I've read your story about this I don't know if this came up. Other than the obvious... how many rounds into plates did you soak up?

[helosailor]

I'm glad to have you around as well. Guys, I will ask just one thing of you all if you would.

Lift a glass or, if you don't drink, pause a moment tomorrow for my brothers who were injured or didn't make it home and their families. That's all. Drink to their honor or pause to remember their sacrifice.

Thanks, and I absolutely will. We lost a lot of good guys in Sadr City.

[SS Junk]

Such an awesome story. Had to go into work in DC the evening of 9/11. Real creepy with the smell of acrid smoke from the Pentagon and no one was outside.

[Forever_frost]

Not a lot of people understand the concept of an "alive day". It's not something to really brag about, but it's definitely something to be glad you have. I have two: 4/18/95, and 6/12/02.
I'm certainly glad to have you still around, Jim.

I'm glad to have you around as well. Guys, I will ask just one thing of you all if you would.

Lift a glass or, if you don't drink, pause a moment tomorrow for my brothers who were injured or didn't make it home and their families. That's all. Drink to their honor or pause to remember their sacrifice.

[helosailor]

Not a lot of people understand the concept of an "alive day". It's not something to really brag about, but it's definitely something to be glad you have. I have two: 4/18/95, and 6/12/02.
I'm certainly glad to have you still around, Jim.

[BLAKE]

Dang man, I had heard parts of your story before, but never so thorough and well written.

Thanks for sharing that, and thanks for doing more than your part to serve our country.

[Mysticcobrakilla]

Thanks for the share. You're the coolest guy that I've ever met off from this board.

Well fuck, there went my day.

[JC316]

Thanks for the share. You're the coolest guy that I've ever met off from this board.

[Rick Modena]

Thanks for sharing, Frosty...

[Forever_frost]

This better not be fake since I read that wall of text!

Nope. It's my day on 04/04/04