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Thread #83629 Message #1538486
Posted By: Little Hawk
09-Aug-05 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: RIP Ernest Alvia (Smoky) Smith, V.C.
Subject: RE: BS: RIP Ernest Alvia (Smoky) Smith, V.C.
Some people have the gift. They just cannot seem to get shot in combat, no matter what they do. General George Patton was one of those. So was Hitler's best commando fighter, Otto Skorzeny. He slipped across the border into Franco's Spain at the end of the war in '45, and lived there for the rest of his life, having survived many desperate incidents without a scratch.
There are some people who have an even greater gift, however...like Mahatma Gandhi. He did eventually get shot, but look at what he accomplished for the World FIRST.