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Were u ever a victim in a bombing attack

walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
I have

This is a TRUE STORY

The year was 1971 April ? ?:00 am

I was in N.Y. attending a meeting at a hotel

The meeting was on the 25th or so floor which I never made to.

I have pic?s of the suicide bomber and the bomb

How did I survive the bomb attack to tell about it now?
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  • Tech141Tech141 Member Posts: 3,787 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My CO, three buddies and I were walking towards the ISAF compound in Bagram back in 2007 when a car bomber set off his explosives approx. 50 yards away from us. We were watching the vehicle as it was approaching. Luckily the guy was a tad early to get us.

    The blast concussion felt pretty solid. Ears were ringing badly for 3 weeks after. Found an arm 5 feet away from where we took cover. Was messy to be sure.

    BTW - Afghanistan concrete tastes just as bad as US concrete... [:D]
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    Well, this is starting to explain a lot.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep

    Here is one:
    http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9013247/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/details-mosul-mess-hall-bombing-emerge/

    I was lucky me and my team were toward the back, we were not hurt but it was not fun.

    I was behind COP Tampa when it got blown up too. Those were not good times.


    I can still here those scum bags honking their horns and yelling all over the city when a VBIED went off. bleening muslims
    RLTW

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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was coerced into going to see Star Wars Episode 1 in a theater.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
    I was coerced into going to see Star Wars Episode 1 in a theater.


    How did you manage to survive? I too barely made it out alive. I was with a friend. We had each other's six. There are still burn marks though.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got on the elevator at ground floor with an other person and the next thing I knew I got bombed.

    She got off on the 1st floor, I could hear her giggling leaving me to take the blame all way up to the 10th floor where I got off gagging.

    That is why to this day I am bald.


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  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was very near the point of impact during a Rocket Attack on October 24, 1973; if that counts! [:0]

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One thing about the 60s and 70s I figured out about you, Is that you really enjoyed your LSD
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In '96 at the Olympics my wife and I left Centennial Park about 30 minutes before Rudolph's bombs went off. We had just gotten home when it went. Luckily all our friends left shortly after we did and the bombs were amateur.
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  • TrinityScrimshawTrinityScrimshaw Member Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In 1981 my wife & I walked right by a VW bug parked outside the USAF HQ at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

    We had to go there, because I had to turn in some items. We were leaving for the States (PCSing). I looked at the roched out VW then & thought it looked out of place parked among all the bigwig vehicles parked there.

    The next day we were flying out of Frankfurt, and learned the VW had a bomb planted in it. Lucky for us we were flying out of the civilian side of the Airport, because the US Air Force side was locked down.

    Trinity +++
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,938 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Due to very random circumstance, I had been in Bahrain maybe 12 hours or a day; anyway I quickly ended up * deep on the recieving end of a riot involving a few thousand angry Muslims, and maybe a few hundred US Embassy guards. Worse, the Embassy didn't understand the severity of the situation, it was reported a marine was shot in the head (though he survived) a decision to move some high value information was made. I was tasked as a driver/security detail to get from the Embassy onto the more secure 5th fleet Navy base. That's about an 8 mile drive at night in a city I did not know where everything American was under attack. I was given a standard issue M9 in a right handed holster (I am a lefty) and Told "don't stop & no one gets in once you're moving".

    Oh and it turns out no one bothered to actually tell the damn Navy base we were coming- in a big * van. Looking back Im not sure what was more dangerous- the drive through the city or approaching the main gate of a base at full speed in a foreign country at night, during a riot...

    What a cluster Fk!!
    http://us.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/04/05/mideast.protest/index.html?related
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  • Laredo LeftyLaredo Lefty Member Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not a fart or a bomb, but the next best thing... a mortar round.

    It was march 1969 at a jungle firebase during my vacation to Vietnam.

    A round hit behind me and way too close. I got hit with schrapnel but my flak vest stopped it. I lucked out.
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  • dpmuledpmule Member Posts: 6,746 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not a victim, but 16 May 1986, I was a stones throw from the schoolhouse in Cokeville Wyoming when the hostage takers bomb detonated.
    Miracle that no kids or adults were killed.
    I carried a couple kids who went down from smoke inhalation to the medicos


    Mule
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's one of the damned few things I have NOT done. Thankfully.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, yes, I have been.

    That would happen with the South Vietnam Air Force was flying your Close Air Support mission....
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