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To: sneakypete
How often do you consider the luck that it has taken to see you through until today? The bullets and frags that whizzed past you and missed by one inch?
298 posted on 02/28/2003 9:04:31 PM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Travis McGee
How often do you consider the luck that it has taken to see you through until today?

There is no doubt I've been lucky. I was lucky I loaded a mag wrong that day because I had lost all track of time and place,and would have most likely been overran if I had hung around for even a few more minutes.

The bullets and frags that whizzed past you and missed by one inch?

I've got some pieces of frags laying around somewhere that didn't miss. One big piece pulled from my rucksack near the anti-tank mine (Korean War-era with TNT) I carried,and another piece from the bottom of my bootheel. The big piece came from a RPG round that took me off my feet. I don't remember how I got the one from my boot heel.

Proving once again that is it MUCH more important to be lucky than it is smart.

308 posted on 03/01/2003 12:49:12 AM PST by sneakypete (Music is magic you can hear.)
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