tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post2408021433845534523..comments2023-11-17T03:55:40.736-05:00Comments on Ink Spots: "Time goes, you say? Ah no!/Alas, time stays, we go."Lilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373158801523577733noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-62775981355651290142010-08-03T15:37:47.415-04:002010-08-03T15:37:47.415-04:00I was in seventh grade worlds away from the milita...I was in seventh grade worlds away from the military. All that I remember is that the UNC-Duke basketball game was postponed due to the invasion. Growing up along Tobacco road, that seemed unbelievable. I was oblivious to the real world.MikeFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-82930843169162178402010-08-03T14:22:31.743-04:002010-08-03T14:22:31.743-04:00At the time, I had a subscription (which my father...At the time, I had a subscription (which my father had purchased) to "Le Journal des Enfants"--a weekly sum up of the news for kids. I read it voraciously as soon as it arrived on Saturday mornings. Apparently the thing is now online...(jde.fr). <br /><br />Within a few weeks of the school year starting (I don't think immediately but I can't remember for sure), I had several new classmates, kids from international schools in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Israel who told gas mask/air raid siren stories.Lilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18373158801523577733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-17984134525569559522010-08-03T13:15:11.666-04:002010-08-03T13:15:11.666-04:00I would play out the war in my front yard with a f...I would play out the war in my front yard with a friend who lived on my street... I remember, we took this walky-talky looking thing, and put it in a bush... That was where CNN was doing their coverage of the war from. Me and my friend were probably among the first generation to include the press and their live coverage in our war games. <br /><br />There are still some old timers left in the unit I am with that served in the ground war. Guys who were Privates in that war are the ARNG Colonels I work for today in AFG.YNSNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-44053193037552296862010-08-03T11:54:16.289-04:002010-08-03T11:54:16.289-04:00Schmedlap -- I have no idea how this didn't oc...Schmedlap -- I have no idea how this didn't occur to me when writing this post. Awesome.Gulliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12558335790019565924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-91490094636268642942010-08-03T11:53:06.458-04:002010-08-03T11:53:06.458-04:00Whenever I think of the invasion of Kuwait, I thin...Whenever I think of the invasion of Kuwait, I think of that clip from The Big Lebowski, when The Dude is buying some half & half at the grocery store and he looks up at a TV to see GHW Bush saying, "this aggression will not stand."<br /><br /><em>"Alas, time stays, we go."</em><br /><br />But The Dude abides.Schmedlaphttp://www.schmedlap.com/weblognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-26532128335843475752010-08-03T10:51:00.718-04:002010-08-03T10:51:00.718-04:00This is, I suppose, something of a riff off of Sch...This is, I suppose, something of a riff off of Schmedlap's recent blog posting. <br /><br />No shit. There I was. I had been getting progressively more tired of the week, but disregarded it. After all, I had a lot more important things to attend to, such as earning my Wilderness Survival merit badge. One of the requirements, of course, was surviving in the wilderness for a night. It rapidly became a hellish night. This story has many permutations, all true, but used together, they became unwieldy. So I'll just select a few highlights: I dressed in layers for the cold (very cold for summer, actually - I went to Scout camp up north) and got hot as we went to the camp site, only to get cold(er) again; our shelter was too close to some bug formation, so we had to move our shelter to a literal hole in the ground, not nearly large enough for three people. I stuck it out - it turned out I had mono - but as you can already tell, it was a long, long night. Ultimately, I went to the infirmary, and it was clear I couldn't go on the backpacking trip the following week. <br /><br />So I went home instead, where I turned on the news (I was precocious), and...I still remember NBC playing "I Won't Back Down" by Tom Petty to close one of their segments or shows early on in Desert Shield. I also remember "The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated" by Bernie Shaw, Peter Arnett, and John Holloman (right on the last one?) the first night, and the CNN room in Tel Aviv wearing gas masks.<br /><br />So I remember it reasonably well, I think.<br /><br />ADTSADTSnoreply@blogger.com