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If you drink some of that case you won't be so tired to have to rest it.
Merry Christmas to all...Safe travels...and Happy New Year.
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larry cad
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Anita, good news on mom. If you figure out how to get her home, please let us know as we have a similar problem with Linda's mom and dad in Florida. Sighhhhh.......
Jim/Dee, wow, a double whammy there. We will be thinking of you and them.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history.........
Ayn Rand
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Bonnie/Todd
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Jim and Dee, so sorry to read of all your bad news, you are certainly in our thoughts.
Anita, glad to hear your mom is doing better.
I was able to have a very delightful visit with Linda. I miss having a sewing buddy already. Thank you Larry for sharing.
DH Todd
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BlueMaxOhio
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MORNING ALL!
HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY!
DAN 
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2005 Jeep Liberty Toad
Rallies & Gatherings Attended: Ask Manny!! 
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Bad Habit 1
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Good morning to all! Our prayers and thoughts go out to all of you. We sure do miss everyone. We look forward to our Thanksgiving get together. We are doing fine. Wrigley goes on Friday for his manly surgery! The trailer is winterized and deep in storage (which breaks our hearts). Can't wait to see everyone in November.
Sandy and Bob
Wrigley our mini-schnauzer born 5/24/09
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Remember the Mohican 8/6/09...Bob and Sandy
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TheAmRheins
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Jim, we'll keep your family in our thoughts.
Ken & I have managed to make a reservation at Jetty Park to view the shuttle launch on the 16th. But the cats need vaccination records for the CG there, so I get to haul them to the vet this afternoon. The prices we pay to play
My luck they will postpone the launch tomorrow after I've spent a small fortune to make my cats compliant
Ken & Kathy
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When Maj. Brian Dennis of the United States Marine Corps met a wild stray dog with shorn ears while serving in Iraq, he had no idea of the bond they would form, leading to seismic changes in both their lives. "The general theme of the story of Nubs is that if you're kind to someone, they'll never forget you -- whether it be person or animal," Dennis tells Paw Nation.
In October 2007, Dennis and his team of 11 men were in Iraq patrolling the Syrian border. One day, as his team arrived at a border fort, they encountered a pack of stray dogs -- not uncommon in the barren, rocky desert that was home to wolves and wild dogs.
"We all got out of the Humvee and I started working when this dog came running up," recalls Dennis. "I said, 'Hey buddy' and bent down to pet him." Dennis noticed the dog's ears had been cut. "I said, 'You got little nubs for ears.'" The name stuck. The dog whose ears had been shorn off as a puppy by an Iraqi soldier (to make the dog "look tougher," Dennis says) became known as Nubs.
Dennis fed Nubs scraps from his field rations, including bits of ham and frosted strawberry Pop Tarts. "I didn't think he'd eat the Pop Tart, but he did," says Dennis.
At night, Nubs accompanied the men on night patrols. "I'd get up in the middle of the night to walk the perimeter with my weapon and Nubs would get up and walk next to me like he was doing guard duty," says Dennis.
The next day, Dennis said goodbye to Nubs, but he didn't forget about the dog. He began mentioning Nubs in emails he wrote to friends and family back home. "I found a dog in the desert," Dennis wrote in an email in October 2007. "I call him Nubs. We clicked right away. He flips on his back and makes me rub his stomach."
"Every couple of weeks, we'd go back to the border fort and I'd see Nubs every time," says Dennis. "Each time, he followed us around a little more." And every time the men rumbled away in their Humvees, Nubs would run after them. "We're going forty miles an hour and he'd be right next to the Humvee," says Dennis. "He's a crazy fast dog. Eventually, he'd wear out, fall behind and disappear in the dust."
On one trip to the border fort in December 2007, Dennis found Nubs was badly wounded in his left side where he'd been stabbed with a screwdriver. "The wound was infected and full of pus," Dennis recalls. "We pulled out our battle kits and poured antiseptic on his wound and force fed him some antibiotics wrapped in peanut butter." That night, Nubs was in so much pain that he refused food and water and slept standing up because he couldn't lay down. Dennis and his team left again the next day, but Dennis thought about Nubs the entire time, hoping the dog was still alive.
Two weeks later, when Dennis and his team returned, he found Nubs alive and well. "I had patched him up and that seemed to be a turning point in how he viewed me," says Dennis. This time, when Dennis and his team left the fort, Nubs followed. Though the dog lost sight of the Humvees, he never gave up. For two days, Nubs endured freezing temperatures and packs of wild dogs and wolves, eventually finding his way to Dennis at a camp an incredible 70 miles south near the Jordanian border.
"There he was, all beaten and chewed up," says Dennis. "I knew immediately that Nubs had crossed through several dog territories and fought and ran, and fought and ran," says Dennis. The dog jumped on Dennis, licking his face.
Most of the 80 men at the camp welcomed Nubs, even building him a doghouse. But a couple of soldiers complained, leading Dennis' superiors to order him to get rid of the dog. With his hand forced, Dennis decided that the only thing to do was bring Nubs to America. He began coordinating Nubs' rescue effort. Friends and family in the States helped, raising the $5,000 it would cost to transport Nubs overseas.
Finally, it was all arranged. Nubs was handed over to volunteers in Jordan, who looked after the dog and sent him onto to Chicago, then San Diego, where Dennis' friends waited to pick him up. Nubs lived with Dennis' friends and began getting trained by local dog trainer Graham Bloem of the Snug Pet Resort. "I focused on basic obedience and socializing him with dogs, people and the environment," says Bloem.
A month later, Dennis finished his deployment in Iraq and returned home to San Diego, where he immediately boarded a bus to Camp Pendleton to be reunited with Nubs. "I was worried he wouldn't remember me," says Dennis. But he needn't have worried. "Nubs went crazy," recalls Dennis. "He was jumping up on me, licking my head."
Dennis' experience with Nubs led to a children's picture book, called "Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle," published by Little, Brown for Young Readers. They have appeared on the Today Show and will be appearing on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on Monday.
Was it destiny that Dennis met Nubs and brought him to America? "I don't know about that," says Dennis. "It's been a strange phenomenon. It's been a blessing. I get drawings mailed to me that children have drawn of Nubs with his ears cut off. It makes me laugh."
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I'll be right back. I have to go give Katie a hug...
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Mick&Anita
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Jim and Dee Prayers are being asked. Sometimes those Dr's. get it wrong. Let's hope they do for his sake. Sharyl, I will do the punch..And Robin Do I need to make a reservation for the hotel? Let us know..Have a great day everyone. Anita
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RogerNCindy
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Jim & Dee wrote:We could use a prayer,My grand-daughter that lives in Washington state,has the H1N1 flu,she is expecting her first child around Thanksgiving.
She has been in the hospital off and on the last 10 days,she is being monitored very close.
So we could really use those prayers.
Also found out that my youngest brother that lives in Calf. was told that he only has from 6-12 months to live,he has emphysema,he has had it for several years. He worked in body shops for over thirty yrs. breathing the dust and fumes took a toll on him.
Jim
Thoughts and prayers outbound
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