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Old 03-10-2011, 10:18 PM
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My dad ended up working in the war industries instead of going into the army. He said he did not want to go into the army because he was a very very good shot and he figured they would have made him a sniper.

He said that the average life of a sniper in battle was like 13 minutes in ww2.
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