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#1 Post by elwoodblues » Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:19 pm

I got this in an email. I don't know if it really happened, but it's still good.

Katie Couric was interviewing a Marine sniper and she asked him, "What do you feel when you shoot a terrorist?"

The Marine answered, "A slight recoil."

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#2 Post by tanstaafl2 » Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:34 pm

Snopes suggests it is a classic urban legend reworked for the present day.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/recoil.asp
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