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...your diagram of the Devastator bullet, you show the casing still attached to the bullet as it travels to the target and explodes. The casing remains behind or is ejected when the round is fired...
...what I am supposed to like, think, do, feel. Stop making all these judgemental demands on me. I wish reviewers would stop writing all those words and just award stars. It's so much easier. Reagan's recovery--4 stars. The weather--2 stars, Vietnam--no, that's a bullet. Sorry. See how easy life can be? Pass the popcorn...
...there was some grimmer news too. Benjamin Aaron, the surgeon who removed the bullet at George Washington University Hospital, disclosed last week that the President had been losing blood so rapidly right after the shooting outside the Washington Hilton that he might have died if he had been taken to the White House rather than to the hospital. Moreover, Aaron confirmed that the bullet had lodged only an inch from Reagan's heart. That report had specifically been denied at the time by Hospital Spokesman Dennis O'Leary, who placed the bullet "several inches" away from the heart...
...satirically pious story tells how a soldier's breast-pocket Bible stopped the bullet en route to his heart. Ronald Reagan had no Bible in his jacket outside the Washington Hilton several weeks ago, but some of the world idly suspected that he may have been otherwise armored-that in some obscure way he may have been protected by his own remarkable luck...
...assassin tried to terminate Reagan's progress, his luck seemed to hold again: if the gunman's arm had been jostled even a hair, if the angle of the slug's deflection off the President's seventh rib had been minutely sharper, if the Devastator bullet had not been a dud . . . Of course, one can argue it the other way: if the assassin's arm had been jostled, he might have missed Reagan entirely...