Text 243, 51 rader
Skriven 2006-03-20 14:47:12 av Björn Forsström (1:3613/1275.19)
    Kommentar till text 241 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: Mudslide
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BF>> I finally made it here and it seems to work.

 CS> Good!  I was sobehind in messages!  Not sure if I answered!  I'm home for
 CS> a short bit.  Just a few days.

And "home" for you is...?
We made it back from Thailand as well. It was a great time. When we said
goodbye to the friends we had made there we got a bag full of flowers.
We were also invited to a birthday party by the owner of the restaurant we
always went to and that was very pleasant. What a great people they are.

 CS> Well, there wasnt much to say from my view of it all.  The Marines went
 CS> ashore and did all they could, but we were 36 hours away.  It was
 CS> interesting though in how we were just 10 feet from the pier, tug boats
 CS> and all puc\shing us in, then suddenly the backed off then swung around to
 CS> pull us back out.  Folks on the pier gapeing at us wondering what was up
 CS> (us too as we were not told til we were a goodly 30 mins outwards of the
 CS> harbour).

Uhu...then you can't be on a carrier now, or...?

 CS> Off we went.  There were I think more of us, than there were of survivors?
 CS> We were the first main relief onsite, meaning 'big stuff'.  Some air
 CS> support type items got there sooner of course, heliocopters and such with
 CS> doctors but we brought in the main load of blankets and supplies.

I heard later that not that many had died there as they said first. How long
did
you stay?

 CS> From my own view, it was a high mountain area with occasionally a view of
 CS> something I think may have been at least 'a' slide if not the main one.
 CS> No obvious villages but we werent very close in (rocky shole waters).  We
 CS> launched LCACs and LCU's out the ying-yang as well as air support but
 CS> honestly we did more with the tsunami relief as there just was more to be
 CS> able to do.  I am sure the Marines on the beach who were trying to help
 CS> out dig folks free saw much more than I did.

What's LCAC and LCU? I know you Americans just love all this fancy shortenings.

Must have been a terrible sight and digging out those dead once....

Ther is right now a program on TV about Swedes and their mental problem after
having been in active UN duty in for instance Afghanistan and they are having
big problems and then I came to think about those of yours who have been to
Vietnam and Iraq.....

They said on the news yesterday that 50 American girls have died in Iraq.

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