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Christmas Day - 2009. I got up at 0530 only to find out we didn't have full power. I went outside and a huge fork from one of our maple trees had come down overnight onto our electrical service entrance ripping the power line from the house easily breaking the PVC pipe going to the power meter. However, we were still getting 90 VAC to the house. One side of the 240v line coming in had been ripped out leaving the other side connected. What choice did we have? We called the power company, and they came and totally disconnected our service! Luckily I had a separate service to my business (in my four car garage converted to and electronics repair shop). We were able to run and extension cord into the house to run our refrigerator and used the shop to cook our Christmas Day meal. At that time we had LP for heat so we still had hot water and heat so we didn't freeze. We talk about this every year as the Christmas that almost wasn't.
Merry Christmas everyone and especially our troops who are away from home this holiday season, some for the first time ever.
Merry Christmas everyone and especially our troops who are away from home this holiday season, some for the first time ever.
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Christmas Eve, 2001.
We landed at Kandahar International Airport and were literally told "no room at the inn", we had to pitch tents and wait until the next day to find a building to move into.
Eventually got a mud hut with a fireplace and cots, in the context of "worst Christmas stories", I consider myself lucky.
We landed at Kandahar International Airport and were literally told "no room at the inn", we had to pitch tents and wait until the next day to find a building to move into.
Eventually got a mud hut with a fireplace and cots, in the context of "worst Christmas stories", I consider myself lucky.
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This didn’t happen to me, but it happened to my then-fiancée. We were deployed to Operation Desert Shield. On Christmas Eve I was in the chapel tent watching Quantum Leap. It was around midnight and I left to go to the latrine and then to my tent for the night. The latrines were near the medical ER tent and as I was walking, a bread van from the flight line stopped and a man started yelling my name. It was Steve. He had cut off his left index finger on a table saw that was deployed without the proper safety gear covering the saw. He was making chem gear boxes so people could stow their gear and know where it was without confusion. The board he was cutting bucked and his hand kept going. I rode with him to the hospital in Riyadh. He came back late on Christmas Day and told me they wanted to send him home. But he said NO, he could do his job. We had only been engaged a few days when this happened. When he asked me if I would still marry him, I said “YES! My dad is missing that same finger.” LOL We celebrated 31 years in August. God is good!
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Cpl Vic Burk
MSgt Dee Ann P. Thank you for that story. And congrats on thirty-one years. My wife has put up with me for forty-two (so far!).
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