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July 22nd 05, 09:28 AM

wrote:
from information I just saw elsewhere.(Thanks,Paul) James Doohan
got the middle finger (Please,no puns) of one of his hands shot
off by three bullets during the D-Day invasion,World War
Two.Walking to the Medic,he didn't realize he had also been shot
by four bullets in both legs.Sounds like one hell of a fine
Soldier to me!
cuhulin

Well, he probably wasn't better or worse than most other soldiers. He
probably experienced his "golden hour" where the body and/or mind closes off
any warning signals.

I know a person (Danish soldier) who experienced this in Ex Yogoslavia. A
couple of mortars exploded just a few feet away from him, and he almost got
blown to pieces. He didn't feel any pain and apart from the fact that he
couldn't move, he felt just fine. He actually wondered why he couldn't move.
It took about an hour, maybe one and a half, before the pain set in and he
realized that those explosions had been more than fire crackers.

He still has a lot of splinters in his body, some in his testicles, which
makes me wonder about the colour of a certain body fluid, but I havn't asked
about that. What is more critical is the large number of splinters in the
rest of his body. The organism tries to push these splinters out of the
system, but what would happen if a minor splinter were pushed into one of
the major veins?

But what has all this got to do with short wave? I know that the person I've
written about is in the Signal Corps - I've been in the same company as him.
But apart from that, this is OT.

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