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I was young...
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I have been snowboarding since I was 12 and have always enjoyed the extreme jumps on the mountains...
I had been riding on a four-wheeler most of the day with a friend who was on another four-wheeler...
My kindergarten class was on an outing to a local state park where we swam in a shallow tidal pool and played on the beach...
I was hit by a car and thrown in front of another, my best friend was also struck in the head...
I left my body completely...
Ted V NDE Home Classification NDE 1782 Ted V NDE 3803 Experience Description After a summer monsoon rain event my friend and I were throwing rocks into a flooded river bed or wash...
I remember getting into the medicine cabinet and taking the valium, a lot of valium...
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Background: I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps (USMC) at age sixteen with my parents' permission and went in after my seventeenth birthday but had to wait until I was eighteen to go to Vietnam...
I got off work that morning, feeling like death warmed over...
Dad had heard about the typhoid outbreak and had ridden about a hundred and fifty miles to get home to help...
I had a bad cold, but no other known health problems...
