Another News Item -- Was RE: Breeding

[Charles Doyle]

On the other hand, soldiers who have lost their arms and legs but retained the use of their hands and feet could still be serviceable.

--Charlie
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>Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 23:38:35 -0400
>From: Doug Harris <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET>
>Subject: Another News Item -- Was RE: Breeding
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>Today's Washington Post (and other papers) carried an AP-bylined story with the headline, in the WP, "Amputee Soldiers Returning To Active Duty." Down in the story it was reported that:
>        "So far, the Army has treated nearly 600 service members who have come back from Iraq or Afghanistan without an arm, leg, hand or foot."
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>We can only hope that, regardless of what they might want, our government is _not_ sending these quadruple amputees back to active duty.

>(the Other) doug
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>Charles Doyle wrote:
>Subject:      Breeding
>
>This morning a headline referred to "the world's first human-bred panda." Could the result of that union have been the basis of the Bigfoot legends?
>
>--Charlie

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