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Captain Angry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-14-07 12:46 AM
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116. It's interesting.
When he was on his first tour, he knew exactly why he was there, and what the job was.

He was going door to door, and disarming whole sections of Baghdad. They found groups of people with millions in cash to fund attacks. They found people with the silver plated rifles of Hussein's private guard.

He said back then that they had no idea what it was going to be like there until the night Hussein was captured.

When that happened, the amount of celebratory gunfire was so loud and overwhelming, the most well equipped military in the world got real nervous. He said that his fellow soldiers just didn't understand the scale of the armaments in that country until that night.

That's a shame about your father-in-law acting like that. Both of my grandpops were in military in WWII, my dad flew bombers in Viet Nam, and everybody knew where my brother fit in. My great uncle was Army in WWII, and is still a huge Bush fan. But everybody's proud of my brother.
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