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GB_RN

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12. My Next Doo Neighbor

Reply to The Jungle 1 (Reply #4)

Mon May 31, 2021, 04:09 PM

May 2021

Was a Lt in the 82nd Airborne on D-Day. He was in the door of his plane looking down and could see the flak bursts. Said one was coming up straight at his plane and that was the only time in his life he came close to believing in a god.

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