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[Cooter]

spent 4 days in a connex building during a sand storm with a friend/coworker in Egypt... we smoked a million cigarettes and he told me a lot of his history and his experiences in battle.

I'm a good story teller, but I've always been fascinated with biographies, and just peoples' stories in general. I've always told my wife that some people collect stamps, I collect people. I have "interviewed" and spent time with people from all walks of life.

When I say interview, I don't mean question/answer bullshit. But I feel like I have a knack for helping people relive and share their experiences.

EVERYBODY has a story, and they're all interesting to me... But extreme stuff like this, cheating death, etc. is always fascinating

[stevo]

I hope you can find some serenity in this time. Anniversaries of bad occasions really suck, best thing to do is try to spend them with others or find something enjoyable to do at the time.

I'm so fucking far away or I would come to you and drink a beer and bullshit with you at least.

Stevo

[Cooter]

Basically, I need to write a summary, 10-15 pages, on Schwarzenegger vs EMA that addresses the history of the case(s) at a lower level, what issues are present (1st amendment) and any sub-issues and analyze each side of the arguments.

Go!

you put the meat and potatoes down, and I'll edit that bitch into a masterpiece!

[Sean88gt]

you put the meat and potatoes down, and I'll edit that bitch into a masterpiece!

The content is suffering from my overwhelming desire to be lazy as fuck lately. I have 2/3 of a page

[Cooter]

The content is suffering from my overwhelming desire to be lazy as fuck lately. I have 2/3 of a page

it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!

[Sean88gt]

it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!

Exactly!

It's like this semester has been the result of a pot head, without the benefit of getting high. I have had 4 Coors since February.

[Cooter]

Exactly!

It's like this semester has been the result of a pot head, without the benefit of getting high. I have had 4 Coors since February.

[Forever_frost]

http://www.youtube.com/user/ErikJohnston#p/u/3/-w10cyOna2M

Some of the stuff in it.

[stinginstang]

That was a surreal day. I found out at the end of April he was over there. Just had a kid and had my head focused on her. We were talking back and forth via email at the beginning of May. Had been out camping and I received a call from a number in North Carolina I didn't recognize. By the 3rd ring my heart sank as I crossed back into Texas.

Voicemail was left and I couldn't bring myself to check it (this was on Mother's day Sunday). 9:30 that night the same number called and the wife of the man that saved my ass/directed my course/helped me find focus/helped me to trust and see good in others was a sobbing mess on the other end. Just a few years earlier he had stood behind me on my wedding day talking to me about stepping up.

He went over to pay off student loans and was KIA, unfortunately, by a fellow troop.

I still think about my loss frequently. If I think too hard about it, I'll get a little misty eyed. In Michael Moore's Fahrenhit 911, he has a mom who's son was killed in the Blackhawk with my friend.

Frost - for some reason you're still alive. For that matter, so am I. Let's make it count.

[Forever_frost]

I still think about my loss frequently. If I think too hard about it, I'll get a little misty eyed. In Michael Moore's Fahrenhit 911, he has a mom who's son was killed in the Blackhawk with my friend.

Frost - for some reason you're still alive. For that matter, so am I. Let's make it count.

That's my thought. I'm active in politics and have been to the WH and the Arms Committees goign head to head with politiicans over how we are treated. Hell, 1800 vets caught HIV because the VA didn't clean their tools.

[Forever_frost]

Today is Zombie Day!

[big_tiger]

So you woke up, with no help of being revived, after they overdosed you? Fucking A, I hope the guy that overdosed you was next to you when you woke up. That would scare the shit out of him.

[GT Dan]

From reading that article, it didn't sound like 2005 was much better than 2004... I'm glad you made it, I still question whether or not its worth the price we pay... the lives we lost (and continue to lose) for those countries...

I'd like to know how your life is today. Its seven years later.... I know we shoot the shit on here and argue about this and that but how is your life now? How is your psyche? Do you still have nightmares and feel safe when you're alone?

[slow55]

Dude after reading all this I don't what the hell to say. Makes anything I have been through or complained about seem like piddily shit.

Thanks for serving our country and I'm glad you're still around.

[davbrucas]

So you woke up, with no help of being revived, after they overdosed you? Fucking A, I hope the guy that overdosed you was next to you when you woke up. That would scare the shit out of him.

He wasnt dead...just a piss poor job of checking for vital signs. People with opiate OD have respiratory depression...depending on how much he received, he could have only taken a breath every 30-45secs and appeared to be dead because the skin gets cyanotic and the heart will eventually arrest. I am sure that the medic just took a look at his head injury and his cyanotic skin and called him deceased without checking for a pulse or a blood pressure. It happens...oh, and no matter what is said publicly, if a soldier has what is deemed a non-survivable injury, then they will OD them on purpose. That could have contributed to the declaration of death as well.