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Most of Platoon's starkest events come from Stone's backpack of Viet Nam memories. "I saw the enemy for the first time on my first night ambush," he recalls, "and I froze completely. Thank God the guy in the next position saw them and opened up. The ensuing fire fight was very messy. I was wounded in the back of the neck -- an inch to the right and I'd have been dead -- and the guy next to me had his arm blown off." He emptied his rifle clip at a man's feet, as Charlie does...
Because Exeter has extremely strict rulesagainst drinking, my high school memories of theHead weekend always include carefully cushioningand concealing bottles inside my alreadyoverloaded backpack. I learned to like rum andcoke because you can drink out of a soda canwithout looking suspicious...
...party from Oregon Episcopal was not to be that lucky. Just before the search was called off Thursday, an Air Force sergeant happened onto a backpack at the 8,300-ft. level. There searchers located the remaining climbers, by then buried three days under deep snow. They swiftly airlifted all eight to Portland hospitals. Doctors revived two students. The six others were dead. The tragedy was Mount Hood's worst...
...fighting the Nazis and I want you to play this war hero." At first he laughed in my face, but later he said yes. He was this big 14-year- old who looked like John Wayne. I made him the squad leader in the film, with helmet, fatigues and backpack. After that he became my best friend...
...read about all this historical stuff growing up, about the revolutionary war, and now I just get off the subway and here it all is," said Hugh J. Murphy, a resident of Santa Rose, Calif who stopped by the new information booth one day last week, laden with backpack, to find out where he could stay while doing temporary work in Cambridge...