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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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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