Broken Masterpieces

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• 1 B Gunn // Aug 18, 2005 at 5:23 am

  The phrase “being short” is one I have heard about often from a two tour of Nam husband. As a chopper pilot who was finallly evact’d with a broken back and jaw from his Cobra being shot out from under him, he has talked so many times about the notion being short would have with soldiers. He said that he never allowed himself to get into that mindset.
  Your verse about perserverance will serve you will. Our prayers surround you…..B Gunn and family

• 2 Mudville Gazette // Aug 18, 2005 at 5:39 am

  Dawn Patrol

  IRAQ If I Got My News From the Newspapers I’d be Pretty Depressed As Well” [Media Blog - NRO] (VIDEO) Mark Finkelstein over at Newsbusters reported this morning that Matt Lauer got a surprise answer from a soldier on a…

• 3 Mudville Gazette // Aug 18, 2005 at 5:51 am

  Dawn Patrol

  IRAQ If I Got My News From the Newspapers I’d be Pretty Depressed As Well” [Media Blog - NRO] (VIDEO) Mark Finkelstein over at Newsbusters reported this morning that Matt Lauer got a surprise answer from a soldier on a…

• 4 Mudville Gazette // Aug 18, 2005 at 6:00 am

  Dawn Patrol

  IRAQ If I Got My News From the Newspapers I’d be Pretty Depressed As Well” [Media Blog - NRO] (VIDEO) Mark Finkelstein over at Newsbusters reported this morning that Matt Lauer got a surprise answer from a soldier on a…

• 5 Mudville Gazette // Aug 18, 2005 at 6:06 am

  Dawn Patrol

  IRAQ If I Got My News From the Newspapers I’d be Pretty Depressed As Well” [Media Blog - NRO] (VIDEO) Mark Finkelstein over at Newsbusters reported this morning that Matt Lauer got a surprise answer from a soldier on a…

• 6 Mudville Gazette // Aug 18, 2005 at 6:22 am

  Dawn Patrol

  IRAQ If I Got My News From the Newspapers I’d be Pretty Depressed As Well” [Media Blog - NRO] (VIDEO) Mark Finkelstein over at Newsbusters reported this morning that Matt Lauer got a surprise answer from a soldier on a…

• 7 Andy // Aug 18, 2005 at 8:54 am

  “Being Short”:
  I served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne. I was a crew chief/door gunner on a OH-6A LOH. Flew until my DEROS date. Flew me down to Phu Bai in my Nomex and processed out.
  I kept a short timer calendar but the last month or so I just quit counting the days???
  God Speed, my friend. Your cause is nobel.

• 8 Dorothy // Aug 18, 2005 at 9:10 am

  It seems that “being short” affects those at home too. I know my anxiety level rose as it got closer to time for my son to leave Iraq. REALITY and TRUTH are that my/his times are in God’s hands. Next breaths aren’t guaranteed no matter where I am/he is. GOD’s plans and purposes are bigger than mine and I need to continually focus on His truths rather than “might be” or “what if”. That helped. So did the promise of heaven and reunion there, no matter what.

  God bless and THANK YOU for your service and for your posts.

  Marine Mom of one, almost two (boot camp grad 09/02/05)

• 9 scogind // Aug 18, 2005 at 10:44 am

  I was “short” in Germany way back in 1976 and was celebrating my return to the “world” with some friends one night on some nameless lake. I yelled SHORT out across the lake and thru the dark a different voice yelled back, SHORTER… I then yelled back NINE DAYS…. and the same voice replied…F### YOU! I was the shortest one on that lake, that night!

• 10 Rex // Aug 18, 2005 at 11:18 am

  Ah, brings back memories, that does. I recall when I got so short I became a double digit midget, which might not seem short but was more than 2/3rds of the way there. At 10 and a wake-up I packed up my footlocker and shipped it home. Only a duffle from there on out. Then finally THE DAY arrived, which wasn’t really the last day because I had to go from Nam Phong to Iwakuni (we were all TAD to Thailand so the gummint could claim there were no American forces “permanently” present in SE Asia) where it took 2 weeks for outprocessing, and then I really did take the big bird back to the REAL WORLD.

  Several surprises back in the REAL WORLD. One was that the high-sole sandals I had first seen in Bangkok were being worn by round-eyes in the states. Another was that Mexican food just did not come hot enough (the Thais have little orange peppers that make jalapenos taste like sweet pickles). Still another was that I wore a sweatshirt in July because the temperatures were only in the eighties.