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Weldman

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Not only are you a Texan, you are from southeast Texas, hot humid, barely a frost in winter and snow is a freakish event. What the heck are you doing up there on the Polar Ice Cap????
Somewhere around rucking it in 120°F plus temperatures with chemical suits on, gas mask on, body armor, full battle rattle of 40 grenades, 210 bullets, 2 frags, couple of canteens, with or various implements of destruction, a ruck sack weighing 150 lbs across the sands in Iraq I think a fuse blew, maybe more. Ninety-six hours without sleep might of crashed the mainframe with a few explosions. They might of crossed a few wires when upstairs tried to self repair. There is more, but everything was never put back. I break fingers, hands,toes doesn’t matter I keep going.
 

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About a month ago a piece of metal went into my eye, cut it pretty good. I could still see, and was stuck in there for a few days, took a magnet to pull it out. Yesterday was first day to go outside and not be blinded by the sunlight. Couldn’t look at computer screens or a tablet/phone screen without sunglasses, even had to turn the lights off, but I kept going even welding here when needed. Poor wife was running around with a flashlight for weeks. Just something’s aren’t the same between me and most.
 

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Ya know -- smokers toss lighted butts out the window while driving!!! Just like an ember, it can ignite dry grasses.

Once I was driving a long and came upon a pickup truck towing a trailer of hay...a front bale had ignited!! I'm frantically blow horn & pointing to it!!! He pulled over. Hard to say how that went, I drove on. But
weather was great, middle of a highway -- you know how that happened -- cig butt, driving winds fanned it. :idunno
Confirmed arson on all three fires. Also saw fire investigators on the way back from dropping lambs at the auction.
 

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Somewhere around rucking it in 120°F plus temperatures with chemical suits on, gas mask on, body armor, full battle rattle of 40 grenades, 210 bullets, 2 frags, couple of canteens, with or various implements of destruction, a ruck sack weighing 150 lbs across the sands in Iraq I think a fuse blew, maybe more. Ninety-six hours without sleep might of crashed the mainframe with a few explosions. They might of crossed a few wires when upstairs tried to self repair. There is more, but everything was never put back. I break fingers, hands,toes doesn’t matter I keep going.

Even a Texan can have a breaking point. You have been repaired but not good as new. Sadly, like so many of our veterans, you are damaged and some of it could have been prevented,

About a month ago a piece of metal went into my eye, cut it pretty good. I could still see, and was stuck in there for a few days, took a magnet to pull it out. Yesterday was first day to go outside and not be blinded by the sunlight. Couldn’t look at computer screens or a tablet/phone screen without sunglasses, even had to turn the lights off, but I kept going even welding here when needed. Poor wife was running around with a flashlight for weeks. Just something’s aren’t the same between me and most.

Didn’t being a combat veteran do enough damage to you? You gotta go stick shrapnel in your eye?

You would feel right at home in Beaumont right about now. They got a bunch of snow and it’s gonna be 11 degrees tonight.
 
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