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Roy S. Flying Brick Rider

Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 1349 Location: W. Sacramento, California
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject: IED up close |
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 _________________ 1993 K1100LT/On going project
1990 K75rt
1991 K75s
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SugarHillCTD Site Admin

Joined: 10 Oct 2007 Posts: 4238 Location: Now in Eastern Pennsylvania
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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all right Roy, WTF was that?? _________________ John & Cathy
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Roy S. Flying Brick Rider

Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 1349 Location: W. Sacramento, California
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| SugarHillCTD wrote: | | all right Roy, WTF was that?? |
A road side bomb - up close and personal! _________________ 1993 K1100LT/On going project
1990 K75rt
1991 K75s
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SugarHillCTD Site Admin

Joined: 10 Oct 2007 Posts: 4238 Location: Now in Eastern Pennsylvania
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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It was broken up and ???
Roy, we are on satellite internet and sometimes DOES NOT translate well.
We really enjoy our peace and quiet but being WAY out of town has its + and - _________________ John & Cathy
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ljjohns Flying Brick Rider
Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 263 Location: El Paso
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: I'm a little sensitive... |
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If you're only seeing something like this for the first time, that's disturbing to me.
From 2003-7. it was my duty to attend funerals of fallen soldiers and speak to their parents, wives, and friends, soldiers whom I had trained and mobilized for deployment to Iraq.
This is what killed them, more often than not. I saw plenty of such videos but you didn't--they never made it on the national media. There was the claim of sensitivity to family's feelings (as has recently erupted about a photojournalist's photo of a dying Marine from Afghanistan) and, I suspect, a concern about the negative impact that such photos from Vietnam had had and a fear that the same would happen again.
It's still going on: every week, I scan the list of casualties published in the Army Times and IEDs top the list of causes.
I didn't watch the clip here, and so maybe I missed something. But I vacillate between sadness and anger when I even see a such a mention.
Larry Johnson _________________ 1993 K1100LT (Washington)
1995 K1100LTSE
1996 K1100LTSE (parts)
2003 K1200LTC
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sdaniel Flying Brick Rider

Joined: 15 Jun 2009 Posts: 156 Location: Little Elm, TX
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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Thank, God that 1 wasn't sucessfull.
My question is how'd it get under the tarmac?
P.S. I have a son in the Marines, and a future Son in Law also.
Semper FI _________________ 1993 K1100LT
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. |
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