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To: naturalman1975

There’s a great scene in Kokoda where one of the guys
wants to stop so he can poop, he’s got dysentery and
the guy behind him on the trail takes his bayonet and
slits the guys shorts so he won’t have to stop and
as they continue on you notice that they all have slit
shorts.

Dysentery no fun, had it in Nam.


15 posted on 06/09/2010 5:39:48 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Stories like that make me glad I was in the Navy. :)


16 posted on 06/09/2010 5:41:19 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: tet68
Dysentery no fun, had it in Nam.

As did I...got it from eating local "produce" (I think). Went from 165 to 102 lbs. inside of three weeks.
Was two days from being sent stateside when the tide turned, the fever broke, what I ate stayed inside.

Absolute bummer....sent me right back to work!

20 posted on 06/09/2010 5:57:00 PM PDT by Logic n' Reason ("Buzzard's gotta eat; same as worms.")
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