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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ragboy" data-source="post: 2226387" data-attributes="member: 4151">I was on the East/West German border when the wall came down. Got to see the "Ghost Autobahn" (hadn't been driven on for 40 years or so) fill up with those crazy little East German cars. Got to actually shake hands and drink with my counterparts across the border the next day. We'd spent two years glaring at each other through binoculars. It was nice to throw all that away and agree that we were 'just soldiers' and not enemies.  Drove a tank, held a.... SPC4 rank... in Desert Storm (1st CAV, HHC 2/8 CAV -- What unit were you guys in?) Captured a Republican Guard general (he blew up my tank...bastard).  I started one of the first ISP's in Austin in 1993. We made our bucks and got out before the crash. I met (and helped build a website) for Chris Farley about two weeks before he died. It was probably one of the most surreal experience of my life. He was very business-like and composed until he got a call from David Spade on his cell phone. Then, he was SNL Farley in an instant.  I have a brother-in-law (Army Intelligence officer) that was in Washington on 9/11. Long frantic hours later we were relieved to find out he wasn't at the Pentagon that day, though he did see the impact. My nephew is going to Iraq this year. He's a redleg (artillery), but I suspect he'll be a groundpounder like everyone else. Edit: Cripes! I forgot: I sold books to Elizabeth Montgomery about a month before she died. She came to Bookstop in Austin to shop. I didn't even recognize her until she filled out a book discount card..</blockquote>

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