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Post by crashtest on Dec 10, 2007 20:42:21 GMT -5
James, I saw that video and couldn't believe the 1900 IEDs the battalion encountered. More than three for every troop. Kinda makes 3000 hits seem trivial, doesn't it? I remember somebody asked Tom Landry how he handled the pressure of making it to the Super Bowl. He kindly informed the reporter that after co-piloting 30 B-17 missions over Europe and surviving a crash landing that football was hardly "pressure". A while back, I got my panties in a bunch when Clemens' son got his Humvee stolen as a prank from the high school parking lot. As if maybe his fine strapping athletic sons couldn't lend a hand disarming a few of the 1900 IEDs if they liked riding around in Hummers so much. You know what, it still chaps me - but I hardly honor the brave sons and daughters who did serve by festering over it. Still, they are the true heroes. I'll never look at another baseball game again without that thought in the back of my mind. The only thing that keeps what the players do from being completely useless and trivial is that baseball provided a lifeline to home and sanity for Kenneth throughout the bulk of his tour. The mlb.com radio broadcasts comforted him on his FOB bunks much as Gene's voice did when I was part of his Pillow Gang as a kid. Baseball has a way of doing that to a guy. That's why we hang around it, year after year.
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