Panties (UNCLASSIFIED)

Brenda Lester alphatwin2002 at YAHOO.COM
Mon Nov 21 19:10:43 UTC 2011


"Squeal like a pig" is in the movie. Of  course, the scene is
much darker in the book.  



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On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
> "squeal like a pig" does not.

Oddly, I, too, "recall" pig-squealing as being alluded to in the book
and / or in the movie. It must have become a meme!:-)

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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