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Old 10-21-2002, 11:02 AM
Robert Robert is offline
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I know you guys had a tough row to hoe. Few people alive today are aware of the price we paid and are still paying.I was extreemly fortunate. Blown out of the same hole twice, replacing a broken extractor under intense mortar and machinegun fire from two maxims, during a platoon raid on hill 120, and some how managing to knock out both machineguns while suffering only a bloody nose and a bleeding ear. Being tasked latter to counter-attack with my battalion to retake Reno after it was lost by the Turks, with little hope of survival in that cauldron, only to have the attack cancelled by the 25th Div. C.G. A grevious tactical error, that cost toksan Marine lives but probably saved my ass. Want to talk about guilt feelings. It.s been a heavy load, along with not being wounded and surviving. Didn't mean to go there, but there it is.
Semper Fi !
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