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To: Bilow who wrote (32756)	6/20/2002 6:30:07 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Carl, a couple stories: I knew a guy in college who knew from th start he wanted to go into the service after graduation. OCS, I assume, we were at a school without ROTC. The story I heard second hand was that he couldn't get in. They gave him some kind of psychological test where one of the questions was, "what would you do if you were in a foxhole with your men, and a hand grenade landed next to you. He said, "I'd jump on the grenade and save my buddies". They rejected him as suicidal. Well, it was second hand, and maybe they got different standards for officers and gentlemen. I also remember some WWII Pacific theater account where some Marines were working on some Japanese dug in to a pillbox or some machine gun nest or cave of some sort. Guy drops a grenade in, it gets thrown out. Releases the grip on another grenade, waits 3 seconds, drops it in, it gets thrown out again. Waits 5 seconds, drops it in, it gets thrown out. Don't remember the end of that one, maybe they went to plan b. I figured the Japanese were doing the right thing if you wanted to be heroic, though, as opposed to the throwing yourself on top of it thing. One of the nuns in my gradeschool had a story about a guy surviving the throw yourself on a grenade thing. I can't remember anything about that one, although I'm sure God was in it somehow.