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		<title>I don&#8217;t know why I remember.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why I remember my parents arguing over Mark Hamill&#8217;s role in Star Wars. We were sitting in the living room at the Crottinger house, and it must have been just after we moved there because I remember this as the first time I was allowed to watch Episode IV: A New Hope. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidjgross.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6656026&amp;post=197&amp;subd=davidjgross&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Wyandotte, Writer&#8217;s Block</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 21:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John has perpetual writer’s block. Or at least that is what he calls it. It isn’t that he can’t write; he writes fine. In fact, he writes for a living. John is a journalist for one of the biggest papers in The City, he has his own column, and he writes guest editorials for The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidjgross.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6656026&amp;post=193&amp;subd=davidjgross&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terp Tales, Shit Happens Boss</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 16:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidJGross</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m enjoying one of the great pleasures of deployment: eating filthy. I&#8217;m soaking wet with sweat, my face is smeared with grime, and my shirt looks like I got skidded over by a semi. The only clean part of my body is the palms of my hands, which I scrubbed down perfunctorily on the five [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidjgross.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6656026&amp;post=166&amp;subd=davidjgross&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Horse and the Rider</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 14:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidJGross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t normally copy and paste into my blog, seeing as it&#8217;s MY blog. But I think that today, some simple passages from scripture might give some perspective to those of you who think that it&#8217;s somehow ungodly for Christians to be excited about USSF having finally taken out Osama Bin Laden, who we&#8217;ve been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidjgross.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6656026&amp;post=163&amp;subd=davidjgross&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terp Tales, Meet Hamza</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidJGross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Operation Enduring Freedom XVI. A different year, a different place. The enemy, he never changes though. Neither do the interpreters. They are still about as quirky as Windows Vista and as arrogant as America herself. Kings, fighting amongst themselves for supremacy in their microcosmic hierarchy of who gets to fleece the Americans more. There&#8217;s an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidjgross.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6656026&amp;post=159&amp;subd=davidjgross&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Pools In My Ear</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidJGross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blood pools in my ear from a cut I made shaving this afternoon. Not that it matters much, as I&#8217;ve sweat trilling down the cleft of my freshly showered spine still cooling from my afternoon run. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidjgross.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6656026&amp;post=156&amp;subd=davidjgross&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mean It &#8216;Till You Feel It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning in Church, I wasn&#8217;t feeling it. The music was “on” as they say, and people were all worked up. But I wasn&#8217;t. I wasn&#8217;t one little bit. I was distracted by how much the worship leader looked like one of my college professors, by how many women were wearing high heals with jeans, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidjgross.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6656026&amp;post=148&amp;subd=davidjgross&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Back.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidJGross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took a break from blogging. I should have done what everyone else does when they take a break rather than just lose interest and stop updating, and left some kind of away message as my last post, but I didn&#8217;t know that I was going to take a break. It just happened. My last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidjgross.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6656026&amp;post=144&amp;subd=davidjgross&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terrible Comfortable Silence (for Jonathan)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DavidJGross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrible Comfortable Silence A beautiful conceit But that&#8217;s just telling, isn&#8217;t it? What do you think your (absent, imagined, clockwork god) reader is going to get from that? We sit on the balcony slipping from Guinness to Blue Ribbon as our taste for, well taste, fades to the taste for, well, pretension. Is this painting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidjgross.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6656026&amp;post=136&amp;subd=davidjgross&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen King&#8217;s &#8220;Under the Dome&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen King&#8217;s 2009 novel, Under the Dome, is a hefty work of something over 1000 pages. I&#8217;m not sure of the exact number because my reading of the novel was via audiobook, purchased from Audible.com. This is my second reading of the novel, both readings accomplished on different Afghanistan rotations, primarily on trips to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidjgross.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6656026&amp;post=126&amp;subd=davidjgross&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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