From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 19:46:44 MDT
I'm a little confused. It seems as if most of your
war wounds were inflicted by the same military whose
service it was said people don't respect enough.
Reading this completely out of context, I would expect
it to be from something written by Ron Kovic...
--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> As it was, I worked as an electrician on F-15s and
> F-111s, as well as
> being an anti-sniper security adjutant. I was
> involved in the Panama
> operation, among other things, lost half of a
> toenail root to bad
> combat boots, injured my back lifting an AC
> generator into an F-15,
> welding burns in my eyes from poor quality welding
> goggles, got a
> ricocheted bullet in the leg, oh, and my pickup
> truck was crushed by an
> idiot who dropped a 1000 lb genset on it during the
> mobilization for
> Desert Storm (with the USGovt denying liability and
> the insurance
> company claiming an Act of War exemption, I was
> stuck with no truck and
> a fat car loan).... as it was I was discharged a
> week ahead of orders
> to go to Saudi for the big Spring Break Volley Bomb
> tournament, and I
> wasn't interested in staying in due to the political
> situation at my
> last base.
>
> Oh, and when I got out, the gummint defrauded me of
> my GI education
> benefits (which I'd paid for, thanks) to the tune of
> $12,000. Yeah, I'd
> say I paid my share.
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