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I dove into the deep end of the swimming pool when I was age 10 or 11...
Scott S NDE Home Classification NDE 3384 Scott S NDE 6787 Experience Description I was jumped by multiple individuals and badly beaten...
I walked into my apartment...
It was around 4pm on July 13 1968...
Mattie K NDE Home Classification NDE 3423 Mattie K NDE 6853 Experience Description First the wave smacked me, and then I found myself standing in a blue channel of light...
I was twelve years old...
On the morning of my event I had just taken a shower and was getting ready to take my mother, who had cancer at the time, for a blood transfusion...
Before the experience, I had been huffing gas regularly for one year...
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I was 14 and was at college...
On 4/9/1979, I was 19 years old...
I was with my little brother and we were looking over an embankment...
We had just cleared a 'decoy' surface-laid IED nearby a narrow curve along one of the main maneuver corridors...
