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To: Tupelo
Years ago I read a history of the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese.

Some of our soldiers went to the jungle as guerrillas, and one cool night they tried to start a fire by soaking a blanket in gasoline and firing a rifle at it. They had no matches. No matter what they did they could not get a fire to start.

16 posted on 06/24/2012 8:29:11 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I LIKE ART! Click my name. See my web page.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

If the soldiers-turned-guerillas failed to draw a fire did they
manage to draw a squad of Japanese to the sound of the gunfire?


22 posted on 06/24/2012 8:44:50 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal Red Turf)
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