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Comments On: Momentous Day
I was working for Big Bear Stores, running their mainframe during 3rd shift. I was taking some garbage out around 04:00 hours when I noticed a newspaper that had the headline "WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST". That was the first I'd heard of it, standing there on the edge of a huge dumpster and reading an old newspaper. James Posted by James R. Rummel at August 2, 2003 07:22 PMI was between classes in Med school, on Navy scholarship, and knew it wasn't good. I had no idea it would lead to this, however. Posted by GruntDoc at August 3, 2003 03:13 AMI was serving on the ROK at the time (Repubic Of Korea) and if I recall, the North was doing a lot of saber rattling then too, we were on high alert during the entire Op Desert Shield/Storm. Posted by Sgt Hook at August 3, 2003 11:30 AMWatching Classified News Netword on the edge of my seat. (Most of the base I lived on had been deployed already, so it wasn't like it was "new news.") Oh and I was also five months' pregnant. Posted by margi at August 3, 2003 05:36 PM
Yes, indeed I do. I was one day away from my ETS date from the Army. I had taken 45 days leave out of my accrued 90 so I was already outprocessed. My fellow soldiers, who had not taken any leave or didn't have any left, had their contracts "reworked". And, it was my 21st birthday.
Posted by serenity at August 4, 2003 02:23 AM
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