02-16-2004, 20:53
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Where am I?
For the person who didn't bring you "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" or "Where in the World is Matt Lauer?", but who will shamelessly rip them off, comes this little quiz:
Where am I? And for bonus points, who am I? (Oh, and when?)
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02-16-2004, 21:08
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Nepal.
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02-16-2004, 21:26
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Lower. The highest peak in these mountains is 8,500 feet.
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02-16-2004, 21:47
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Central Highlands, VN.
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De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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02-16-2004, 22:12
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Haven't checked elevations or anything, but looks like a photo from the Vietnam war.
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02-17-2004, 07:39
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Dien Bien Phu - 1954 - Giap
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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02-17-2004, 10:16
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Quote:
Originally posted by The Reaper
Central Highlands, VN.
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TR, it's not the Vietnamese Central Highlands, but it is very, very close.
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02-17-2004, 10:18
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Burma,
Looks like it could be the KNU, taken a few years ago.
Skipper
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02-17-2004, 10:22
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Narrowing it down: I have to go back and check to confirm, but I'm fairly sure it is somewhere in here: http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/mapnd4808.html
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02-17-2004, 11:22
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Tri-Border area of II Corps?
Pleiku/Kontum area?
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
Last edited by The Reaper; 02-17-2004 at 11:25.
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02-17-2004, 13:43
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Well, who is it?
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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02-18-2004, 10:13
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Where? - Laos, on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
When? - Late 1965
Who? - SOG and Hmong trail watcher team; the Hmongs were from Vang Pao's forces
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02-18-2004, 10:22
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DAMN! I had LAOS first. Had the year wrong though.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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02-18-2004, 10:46
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OK, where am I
and who is the guy with the dark sunglasses? (lower right)
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02-18-2004, 13:33
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Is he by any chance Jordanian?
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