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Y: What do you remember from the

First Lebanon War?

C: It was a relatively light but long war. I

remember when we arrived in Beirut; it

was a very beautiful city, everything was

green, full of water, and I even traveled

with one of my officers for a walk and we

arrived at a special wax museum. That's

where we first saw delicious yellow and

pink cherries. We also saw amazing

cedar trees. The Lebanese method was

to stretch a thin piece of iron from

window to a window that was difficult to

see,so the person sitting on the tank

would not notice and be clotheslined.

We lost some friends like that.

Y: What do you remember from the

Gulf War?

C: We were shocked that Saddam

Hussein was thinking of bombing us with

chemical weapons, so the army wanted

to deploy our brigade to Iraq. We

readied all the appropriate equipment

and prepared for the flight, until the last

minute the United States did not approve

the operation. I was

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