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For a moment I was speechless. I kept seeing the brutal running down of a human being in my mind's eye. I didn't want to believe it.

"Where did you get the guts to run him down?" I finally asked. "I couldn't have done it."

These are the kind of lines that make my eyes cross. I simply cannot fathom having compassion for a worthless thug who has just threatened my life with a gun in the face. In fact, it is incomprehensible to me that anybody wouldn't do exactly what this Marine did - - run the SOB over. And I'm sure that I would go get my money back from the body and then drive away laughing.

Semper fidelis,
LH

9 posted on 03/19/2004 6:53:12 PM PST by Lancey Howard

To: Lancey Howard

I'm sure that I would go get my money back from the body and then drive away laughing.

And sleep the sleep of an innocent baby that night as well.

10 posted on 03/19/2004 6:55:46 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

To: Lancey Howard

LOL!
That part always really confuses me in stories like this.
Its as if the write really thinks the natural human reaction to is flight, not fight.
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15 posted on 03/19/2004 8:05:53 PM PST by sarasmom ("I'm a redneck and Charles Bronson was a sissy".(Permission to use as tag granted by The Toll)

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