I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show (Rex B) wrote
back on Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:18:35 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

|| My Dad's sargent took a tiny bit of shrapnel in his throat. My dad was
||going to pluck it out with his fingers, and his sargent said "Don't touch
||that! That's my ticket off the line!" At least a chance to get away from
||the war for the rest of the day.
||==

And a purple heart, and a shot at the presidency!

maybe the former, but I doubt the later, not in '43. "W'addaya want, a
medal or a chest to pin it on?"

Then there was the Bill Mauldin cartoon from the same war. Willie to
corpsman behind card table "Naw, I already got a Purple Heart, gimme a
couple aspirin."

tschus
pyotr


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pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."