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qazplm135

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3. I remember being in Kuwait waiting to go home

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Wed Jul 29, 2020, 03:27 PM

Jul 2020

from Iraq in 2005 and I'm pretty sure it got to around 120 and I tell you, oppressive does not begin to describe it.

Even though there was a movie theater and shopping and whatnot a five minute walk away, I spent most of my time on an uncomfortable cot for three days waiting to go home because going outside for five minutes was such a brutal experience.

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