Shut the fuck up, Sir.

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Okay, this Canadian war hero is just too cool. Not so much because he blew up some tanks at close range and saved a lot of his friends, but because he was demoted back to private from corporate nine times because of his dislike of authority and ended up being their only private to get the Victoria Cross.

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Re: Shit, I didn't know Smokey died...

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Anyone who made it through the Sicilian battles at all, much less covered in medals, deserves tremendous respect. My uncle Richard was in that mess in the U.S. Army, at the invasion and all the way up the boot, and has not been the same since.

Like Smokey, he is not a fan of authority.

Re: Shit, I didn't know Smokey died...

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Maybe you heard this already, but Halfjack heard him speak (http://www.livejournal.com/users/brevity/322556.html?thread=525308#t525308) on a couple of occasions. Seems that his contempt of authority was entirely justified.