PoppaGeorge Member since Nov 07th 2004 10384 posts
Tue Nov-17-15 03:21 PM
3. "on campus at a rally protesting the war." In response to Reply # 0
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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out? Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then? They don't want to call for peace then.
5. "Sure. Dorm room, freshman year. Pete busted in and said 'hey man" In response to Reply # 0
we're dropping bombs on iraq, we've got the news on in the lounge.'
I remember where I was when we went into Afghanistan as well. In my house. Mom called to tell me. I didn't have a working TV or internet yet though at home.
I don't remember where I was when we went into Iraq the second time.
6. "The morning after Saddam invaded Kuwait I saw Bryant Gumbel " In response to Reply # 0
talking about it on the Today show. I'd never heard of Kuwait.
As for a the War, I think it was a big thing where they kind of counted down when it was going to start. I was in 6th grade. I was at a Sixers/Hawks game when it ended, though.
11. "Came home from school, when I suddenly heard a new tea kettle activate." In response to Reply # 0 Tue Nov-17-15 04:40 PM by Cam
I thought that thing was an air raid siren, from WW2. I completely thought we were on the brink. After no one reacted, I felt like my entire family went crazy, I couldn't understand their calm reactions, in the midst of our imminent death--by Sadam's Nerve Gas.
After they recognized the reason for my behavior, they turned it into a joke and kept it going--until dinner time. I had my action plan in full effect...in a corner in the basement.
17. "Persian Gulf invasion kicked off August 1990..." In response to Reply # 12
Pooped off while I was on leave from tech school and a week away from reporting to my first duty station at McGuire AFB a/k/a Gateway to Europe. When I arrived there a week later, there was desert camo all over the MAC Terminal.
13. "Basketball practice" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Nov-17-15 05:28 PM by furtim_infesto
My mom walked in with a weird look on her face. She had never been to any of my practices so I knew something was wrong. All she could say was "the ground war started". My dad was in 2nd ACR there. I really didn't know how to feel about it so I stayed at practice.
19. "9th grade. We had that Channel One TV in the classroom" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Nov-17-15 09:14 PM by j.
I remember the shit looked like a video game, the green NVG footage, the tracers, the cruise missiles, the Patriot batteries in Israel, all that shit was sanitized and presented like Contra for NES
edit: who can forget Whitney Houston and the Bills blowing the Super Bowl
27. "If we're talking about the Persian Gulf War" In response to Reply # 0
I was 5. And I remember it interrupting my afternoon cartoon watching. I didn't know exactly what was happening, but I remember seeing the missle fire, the night vision bombings... When the goddamn Disney Afternoon was supposed to be on...
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