A cellphone call from combat

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Hey, Mom? It's me. I don't think we're going to make it out of here.

This one was hard to read, for me.

Edit: As always with dramatic stuff like this, may be an urban legend or an "improved" story. As I should have said when I posted it. :)

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[lil-om.livejournal.com]

ive only been at work an hour, and now i am all teary-eyed. that was damned good artical

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[alienhand.livejournal.com]

So angering.
That should be Cheney making that phone call.

"George,.. *huff *huff.. this is Dick.. I don't think we're gonna make it out of here..."

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[threepunchstuff.livejournal.com]

I think that call takes place every morning, only "here" is "from bed."

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[pandaxian.livejournal.com]

hahaha, oh man, that made me laugh so hard. I think I scared my animals from such sudden laughter :x

[threepunchstuff.livejournal.com]

This phenomenon of moment-of-death calls really shakes me. Those voicemails people sent from the twin towers, to a lesser extent the Jet Blue passengers who watched their own emergency landing on tv while talking about it on their phones. I don't know if I'd want to hear that call, or make it.

Sentimentality Kills

[piratepirate.livejournal.com]

Being here and having some information that other people don't, I would seriously advise taking this article with a grain of salt.

If it IS true, then that soldier needs a good, solid pounding for a great many different and equally crucial reasons.

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[substitute.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, always a grain of salt with dramatic stuff like that.

I considered while reading it that it might be a conflation of some real incidents where people phoned in their doom, and stuff like the scene in /Three Kings/ where the guy is phoning home from Iraq after pawing through the pile of cellphones.

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[lil-om.livejournal.com]

i actually liked that movie...aside from all the "whatnots"

but, yes, a grain of salt with anything you read in the "news".