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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan 
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. is an amazing thing. On E-Bay I saw a helmet being offered that was said to come from Iwo Jima. There was a bullet hole through the top front of it. When I was in the Marines, after coming back from Vietnam, I met a supply sergeant at Camp Lejeune who had a sideline in selling military gear. At a small price he would sell you a helmet with liner and camouflage cover, and for five bucks more he’d put a bullet through it. I never thought of that one minute beyond the moment it happened and yet decades later that instant on E Bay brought it all back. You ever have something like that happen to you? It almost makes you think that there are other lives going on beneath the only one you think you’re living. John . |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
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Your last name would not be Flipson, would it? LOL......I was married to a marine at about the same time stationed at Camp LeJeune. Come to think of it, I think that is how my ex-husband got his flight jacket -- same vendor, perhaps....and I had not thought about that in years either. Yes...that was another life. [This message has been edited by iliana (08-28-2007 12:44 AM).] |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. "Your last name would not be Flipson, would it? " Nope. I did get to "liberate" a field jacket for two gallons of yellow paint I ordered through channels for another supply sergeant I knew in Puerto Rico though . . . . |
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