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Sniper

Sat Nov 21, 2009, 9:33 AM
Someone standing close to me is shot in the neck, leaving him there for a moment in a frozen gesture of calling. He spins round suddenly very slowly and I can see the hole in his neck where his Adam's apple should be. It is edited like a scene from a film. A canteen rises and turns in the air. Lobes of water gleam around it in the sun before it clatters in the gravel.

The crowd scatters and meshes and the man falls. I am filled with an eerily familiar mixture of fear and rage.
But the worst thing is that I want to get away as quickly as I can and I can't remember where I have left my helmet.

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When things like this are going on it seems luxurious to consider my own responses to them. In the valley the flames are smudges of yellow but I still perambulate around my feelings of horror and disbelief.

I used to live there but now I don't.
Now I don't live anywhere.
Are you worried?

Because I'm not.

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  • Mood: Peaceful
  • Listening to: Black Angels - George Crumb
  • Reading: Banksy - Wall & Piece
  • Watching: Ghostbusters 2

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I'm a soldier stationed in Ft. Lewis, just outside of Seattle Washington. I completed my plunge into total insanity last year when I enlisted in the U.S Army as a Cav scout . I am an extremely quiet person and usually only have impersonal conversations. I just enjoy observing situations and listening to people. And write about them sometimes. I don’t always speak my mind. I don't believe in national or ethnic pride and I don't fit the status quo of my Hispanic heritage. Pride is something which you earn and attain. It's not what you are born into. I don't care about what kind of car you drive or how fast you like to go over speed limits. I don't hit on anyone. Never have. Probably never will.

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  • Current Residence: Ft. Lewis, Washington
  • Interests: Sketching, writing, surviving the army, running, weight lifting, photography, rifles, poetry
  • Favourite movie: Raging Bull -There will be blood - taxi driver- Apocalypse now- no country for old men -blade runner
  • Favourite band or musician: Radiohead, Sigur Ros. Tom Waits, Iron &wine, gnarls barkely, Beck, Ligeti, Arvo PArt
  • Favourite artist: Helnwein, caravaggio, Robert Parke Harrison , Banksy, Edward Hopper
  • Favourite poet or writer: Antonin Artaud, DeLillo, cormac McCarthy, Plath, Celine
  • Favourite photographer: Alexander Gardner, Dmitri Baltermants, Robert Capa, weegee
  • Favourite style of art: subjective objectivism, pseudo-realism, post-post-post-modern postism, militaricalism,
  • MP3 player of choice: Ipod, my car
  • Favourite game: chess, call of duty 4
  • Favourite cartoon character: ren
  • Personal Quote: I hearby excuse you from appearing in my idea of you.
  • Tools of the Trade: pencil, various cameras, m4, paranoiac visions, microsoft word

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:iconreesy1080:
*reesy1080 Nov 8, 2009, 3:16:12 PM
thanks a load for the favage I really appreciate it :D ill put in a good word for you with God, I’m playing poker with him on the weekend……… he cheats by the way

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~Amally Oct 31, 2009, 12:42:30 AM
Hey Dude,
Thanks for the favourite.
Nice to see another Tom Waits fan. Isn't he just freakin' awesome? :)

-Amal

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You can imitate, but you can't duplicate.
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~EdenEye8 Oct 31, 2009, 12:52:34 AM
Of course. I'm still perusing your gallery. I like your style and what you have to say about boxing. I like Tom Waits. He has an interesting body of work.

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- Ariel
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~KACantol Jul 18, 2009, 6:19:44 PM
Thanks for the favorite. Also- great gallery.
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~Titanfrompso Jun 19, 2009, 10:04:11 AM
Maybe being a US citizen doesn't count as prideworthy and sometimes neither does being a member of any military branch or saying that you "served your country" but being qualified to be a scout takes a lot of skill so you should at least be proud of that. BTW great gallery!

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Dead Space: Know God, no fear. No God, KNOW FEAR.

F.E.A.R.2: "You're like a pizza at an anime convention. Alma will find and consume you!"

My new avatar is courtesy of :iconMikey114:
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~EdenEye8 Jul 7, 2009, 2:10:12 PM
Thanks for the kind words brother. :)

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- Ariel
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~Titanfrompso Jul 7, 2009, 4:34:24 PM
No problem!

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Dead Space: Know God, no fear. No God, KNOW FEAR.

"And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man"-Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend"
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~newwebdesign Jun 17, 2009, 8:34:19 AM
Hey brother I really appreciate what you have been doing for our country. There are a lot of A-holes in the world and you don't deserve a stupid lecture from some idiots in your photo comments. I have a few friends who went to Iraq thank god they came home safe. The People who want to bash US soldiers shouldn't live in the USA. Ya kno? I know people are entitled to their opinion, but thats just mine. Shoot if that one guy wanted to spend millions on the education system we might as well invite terrorists to our country. Well haha sorry for the rant. I don't agree with war what so ever but war has been the same since way back in history. What elese is new? well you have a great day man and be safe if you get deployed again.

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~maroonmoon64 Jun 4, 2009, 3:00:30 PM
how did you make that notice with out a DA subscription?

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