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eppur_se_muova

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16. I had a suspicion that this had something to do with his personal experiences in the Afghan War.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Fri Nov 28, 2025, 12:09 AM

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I remember that WV units were among the first sent in, and two WV casualties within a week made the local news. It happened again a few weeks later. Of course, WV has an unusually high percentage of its population in military service of one kind or another. So maybe it's all coincidence -- or maybe he took a special dislike to WV soldiers.

One of the casualties owned a bicycle shop down by the river; I used to walk by there all the time. It was really weird in the post-9/11 atmosphere to walk by there and know that a guy who used to work there had died fighting the Taliban, thousands of miles away.

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