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I was talking to a semi-crazy vietnam and gulf war 'vet today on the bus and he was telling me about how beacame as blind as he is now (he was partially blind). He was telling me he was in the Marines and when they started firing SKUD missles at the enemy he and his comrades asked the commanding officer "Is it OK for us to watch them like this?" (they were watching their whole trip from fire to dentonation) and he said "Oh yeah sure, it's fine!" according to him this is part of what made him blind. Also he said that the government is trying to screw him out of his pension by pushing back the time when his checks start flowing further and further back. He told me about some of the worse things he saw: he told me that the government gave hallucinogenic (sp?) drugs to some soldiers in the hopes they would become "the perfect killers" and they reacted by killing each other and he told me that he saw his best friend's head get blown off during combat right in front of his and that he was skimmed by what he thinks was a 7.62 round. A bit much to tell a 14 year old kid, but I was very interested.
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Sometimes things dont end up how they should, a son, a brother, a mentor, a teacher, a cousin, a nephew, a grandson and a god in my eyes.
Who knows what he more could have been...
Christopher Muzykant
April 9, 1976-November 4,2005
My Brother, Always and forever
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