Word: tented
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Last Christmas his parents sent Thom a 35-mm camera, and the photos from the roll he mailed home in January are among his family's greatest treasures. One shows Thom clowning around in a red-checked kaffiyeh under a camouflage net. Another portrays him standing in his tent, an M-16 on his arm and a cigarette hanging jauntily from his mouth. Several others show his light armored vehicle, hauntingly dubbed "Blaze of Glory." Painted on one side is a cartoon of an armed Saddam Hussein atop a camel, his body framed within the cross hairs. Says Dan Bartok...
Outside, the rain is beating a relentless riff that is familiar to anyone who has lived through a monsoon in Southeast Asia. Inside the Army-issue tent in a clearing at the jungle's edge, Nash A. Miller, a onetime helicopter door gunner and crew chief, is changing into a dry pair of camouflage fatigues. As his two watchdogs prowl silently, Miller, nicknamed "Nam" (his initials), recounts his tale with a small, innocent smile. It begins at a firebase in the badlands west of Kontum, near the Vietnam-Cambodia border, in the summer...
...hikers, who had planned a three-day trip, were surprised by severe weather on the second night of their expedition up Presidential Ridge, Brown said yesterday. Their tent was destroyed, leaving them exposed to blowing snow and intense cold, he added...
...sharing fear and hardship with the citizens of the countries they cover. When air-raid sirens howled Thursday night, Jerusalem bureau chief Jon Hull and his wife Judy donned gas masks, moved to a sealed room, then quickly placed their 15-month-old son Dylan in a small plastic tent designed to protect infants from chemical poisons. As Dylan howled in protest, Jon got on the phone to find out more about the Scud missiles that were falling on Israel and to advise us in New York City. It was a reminder for us all that war is composed...
Although no one was killed by the missile barrage, Kelsen said that three people were reported dead in the wake of the attack--including a small child who smothered in a protective tent designed as a shield from gas attacks...