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Old Sep 2, 2002 | 12:06 AM
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every one that had one please do share
thats if you want
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Old Sep 4, 2002 | 08:24 AM
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When I was in the Air Force, I flew on a B52 from Udorn AFB in Thailand to Elmendorf AFB in Alaska, to refuel, and on to March AFB in Riverside, CA, where I was stationed. I and another guy got off, with the 8 turbines still rotating. The plane and regular crew took off again and crashed and burned in Sunnymead (now Moreno Valley), 3 miles to the east.
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Old Sep 4, 2002 | 08:43 AM
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I got buried alive once when I worked in the coal mines. A freak crack opened in the roof and poured tons of soft silt on top of me . I couldn't hold my breath any longer and had just started to eat the stuff, when a couple of guys taking a big personal risk, scrambled down to me, digging with their hands, grabbed my ankles and pulled me out.
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Old Sep 4, 2002 | 03:32 PM
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wow
for both of you, it must have changed you life for ever.
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Old Sep 4, 2002 | 03:56 PM
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LOL
It changed my life for 10 minutes, I was on a contracted scheme and got paid by yardage. No yardage = No money.
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Old Sep 4, 2002 | 06:51 PM
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lol
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Old Sep 5, 2002 | 07:09 AM
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Cedric Tomkinson,
Please dont take this the wrong way b/c i know it was a life/death situation for you and everything...but when i read your post i started laughing REALLY HARD at the fact that u said you to start eating the silt. man, i think i busted a gut laughing...again, i didnt mean it in offense in any way...
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Old Sep 5, 2002 | 07:50 AM
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LOL. I suppose if I could have eaten it all.....

Looong time ago Kemo Sabe!
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Old Sep 7, 2002 | 03:33 PM
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It changed my life for no minutes. Six of us, fraternity brothers, graduating together, living in three apartment in the same apt. bldg. in Inglewood, same major, girlfriends who were friends, the whiole 9 yards -- went to AF flight school during Nam. We all graduated together, hung around awhile, and eventually all got assigned to the same squadron of F4C Phantoms to go to Nam. The day before we shipped out, we were playing baseballl at Brooks AFB in San Antonio . I was catcher, stood to close to the home plate, and got nailed in the eye with a baseball bat. There went my 20-20 vision, my flight contract, and my base insurance. My five buddies all shipped to Sourheast Aia the next day and within a year three of the five were shot down and killed in North Vietnam. You figure it out.
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Old Sep 8, 2002 | 09:48 AM
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ouch
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