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I was drowning and I saw my life flash before my eyes...
The first thing I remember was being helped from the back seat of the car by my friend Donnie...
On May 15 1991, I felt extreme pain in my abdomen...
I will never forget that day...
I was attending an evening lecture at my son's high school concerning preparing your child for college...
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...
In 1960, I was 6 years old and drowning...
After being hit by a jeep, thrown couple of feet away from the car's location, and falling on the concrete ground, I tried to get up as quickly but I couldn't as if I was fully paralyzed...
I was 9 1/2 years old and it was mid-winter in Northern Ontario...
I had become seriously ill with osteomyelitis, contracted through what was eventually determined to be a golf ball-sized polyp located behind my larynx that had ruptured...
When I arrived at the toilet, I had real pain in my stomach...
