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Veterans

JustAnotherGen

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4. Didn't even have to come into

Reply to unhappycamper (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 10:46 AM

Jul 2013

Physical content. The father of a good friend was a Pilot transporting it back and forth.

Same death my dad had in August 2011 in January 2012 - Various pneumonia, lung cancer - two weeks later - stage four liver and intestinal cancer.

This shit eats you from the inside out once the wire trips and the bomb gets set soff. It's so quick.

But to think a baby - and that little girl is a baby to me - is paying for the sins of the grandfathers? Shame on us all. That poor little kid. Because I know she is going to have her intestines come out of her in the last 48 hours of her life. That poor little kid.

And for your friend and what you give to our vets here unhappy - and

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4 decades after war ended, Agent Orange still ravaging Vietnamese [View all] unhappycamper Jul 2013 OP

My father died of complications from Agent Orange. Drunken Irishman Jul 2013 #1

Another one JustAnotherGen Jul 2013 #2

A good friend of mine was a grunt in Nam. unhappycamper Jul 2013 #3

Didn't even have to come into JustAnotherGen Jul 2013 #4