Is anyone out there that was at Tianimen Square, and lived through it?
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There are lots of people who were at Tianimen Square and lived through it.  The actual truth is that most of the people that were killed during this time were the citizens of Beijing that were outside of the square trying to prevent the Chinese army from getting to Tianimen Square.
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Yes, the family has been since the Revolutionary War.\n\nWhen you grow up on base or post you really don't know the difference compared to living off base.  You don't go to "military school" but regular schools like in the "civilian" world except they are run by the DoD.\n\nIt wasn't a bad experience.  In fact when we lived on the Persidio in San Francisco, CA in the early 1960's....75 yards from my front door was a Nike missile launch site (cool for an 8 year old kid) and the window from by base housing bed room was of the Golden Gate Bridge...I good see the entire bridge.  Any idea what civilians have to pay for  view like that?\n\nThat was my experience any way.
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Just then I was teleported to a medieval construction site.  Before I had time to exclaim, "What the...", I was ordered to get the wattle and daub from the slag heap behind the lean-to, before it hardened.\n\nSeemed I was stuck there, as I knew castles to take generations to build.  Damn my luck.
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I have been to several.  Most have been great!  Lovely rooms, very clean, great food.  You can meet some lovely people to talk to or watch TV with.  I only had a problem one time.  The B&B had four bedrooms on the second floor, each with its own bathroom.  The walls were kind of "thin" and there was one guy in one of the rooms who farted all night long.  For a while he sounded like a motorcycle, then like a howitzer, then like a shot gun.  Several tiimes his wife went down stairs for a breath of fresh air.  The next morning at breakfast, no one sat near him.
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Yes, I went a couple of times, to check out the mounds.  The mounds are quite interesting, but because of their magnitude, it's best to have a map with you so that you can figure out where you are.\n\nI'd like to go again soon.
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Try to ask mor clearlly at http://skyscrapercity.com/archive/index.php/t-160977-p-4.html
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I was in the World Trade Center on 9/11/01, I made it home by the Grace of God.  I always wanted to move out of NY and I did I am in FL now.  Been here a year.  \n\nYou can plan all you want, but God has plans of His own.
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When I went to Moosejaw a few years ago and did a tour of the underground tunnels, I was shocked to find out about the Chinese Immigrants and how they were treated. We never learned about this in school. They would work in the laundries and the working and living environments they were put under were horrific. You can probably find more info if you google it.
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I didn't go to university there but I visited alot of friends while they were studying there.  I just remember the parties great parties.  Oh I did go to some lectures booooorrrrriiiinnggg!
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you lived there. full immersion, it's zee bombski, nyet?
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1) Yes, lived there last year\n2) Very nice! Some are very beautiful and way more easy going than western ones\n3) Nope\n4) I'm sure I would love it.\n\nThanks for the 2 points!
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We went to the smithsonian institute in washington DC.  I love museams and apparently so did she.  we both had a great time.\n\ntom\n(ps: still together 1.5 years later.)
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Well, I cannot really form an opinion based on a couple of brief encounters, but i had an experience once, when staying with my baby son and wife in a hotel, not far from Davao, Philippines.\n\nI was not impressed, we were in bed and around 3.30 early morning we were awoken by laughing, heavy footsteps up and down the stairs, shouting. . It got to the stage that I lost my temper, got up and opened the door. There were 3 taiwanese men (I found out later) bragging to each other about the whores they had just been...well you know. Standing there with beer in their hands, grinning like cheshire cats, I just looked and shouted at the top of my voice: "What the hell is going on here, we are trying to sleep"!\nThey looked at me said nothing except, solly, solly, solly...then went downstairs.(ha,ha..could not resist that one)\nI tried to sleep again, wife moaning, baby screaming, so I went down to the bar for a drink! When I came down, those guys were standing there, waiting for their whores to come downstairs!\nThey saw me, with my angry look, and they all scarpered outside the hotel to wait for a taxi! I was no longer angry, but very tired. I never knew I could have that effect on people!\n\nI hope all taiwanese men are not so respectless of others like them, ok, I am biased I hate prostitution and all for what it stands for, although I know it is the oldest business in the world!\n\nBut, I am sure like everywhere in the world there are good and bad people everywhere!
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you wrote a nice story ,but did you ever lived 1/2 of your life in this idyllic beautiful Communism??\nthe Communist was against religion \ni lived there   \ndid you hear about CEAUSESCU??he was killed because of how good the PROLETARIAT lived in that Communism\nthere i was borne\nand never will be an UTOPIA as long as people  can' t be equal
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It will always stay in my mind...I was in a class at my company's HQ in Baltimore.  During our 10 AM coffee break one of the guys came in and said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center...we thought he meant the WTC in downtown Baltimore...we all went outside to look...nothing wrong there.  We all went next door to see the TV and realized it was in NYC...by then the 2nd tower had been hit.  Class was out for the day...we were all glued to the TV...everyone in the company was sent home early because Gov. Glendening was going to close the I-95 tunnel under Balto. Harbor.\nBy the mid-afternoon there were F-16s flying combat air patrol over Baltimore.\nOur class got out that Friday; all of us had to drive home - no flights available; another guy and I had a rental car from the week before.  I live in Oregon; he lives in Arizona.  We started driving - dropped him off with his brother-in-law in Detroit, then I drove all the way to Portland.  One guy had to rent a U-Haul to drive home; rental cars couldn't be had for love or money.\nOne of my cousins is a lawyer in NYC...we like her in spite of it:)...she had an early morning meeting in the WTC, and got out of the north tower 1/2 hr. before the first plane hit...
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crastastic sumed it up execpt if you like \nL.A. go to Maquire Fields\nif you like N.T. go to Refern.\nif you like China head to the city, Eastwood, Villawood, Epping, Or any where on the north west train line!
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I spent a year in Korea. There were way too many MP's over there and we hated them with a passion.  I was up in 2ID where we weren't allowed to do anything but go to the ville and get drunk.  MP's all over the place out there...just pests.