"hero" (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Wed Jul 25 14:53:15 UTC 2012


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Caveats: NONE

>
> The police performed superbly in nabbing the guy in the parking lot,
alive,
> and defusing his booby traps before they blew the roof off the
apartment
> house.
>

Given that booby traps had been defused, would it not have been even
more heroic to _not_ blow the roof off the building?
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Caveats: NONE

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