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...veteran McSorley was humiliated. McSorley, a battered 36-year-old with bad wrists and a bum shoulder, said after the game that it was his frustration with the fact that he can no longer fight the way he once did that drove him to the sneak attack. Brashear's helmet flew off as he crashed to the ice, causing a severe concussion...
Then comes the highlight of the evening--and Robert's best chance to scare his son straight. An officer in a yellow inmate outfit and red helmet and pads begins shouting in cell 3C06, as if he's a convict gone berserk. On cue, four officers in riot gear march to the door of the cell and shout, "Ready and stop!", before one unleashes a burst of pepper spray. Then they rush in, pinning the prisoner to the wall, handcuffing and evacuating...
...wearing a cape and bicycle helmet to be different....I fell back on my head, the helmet saved my life, I fell really hard," Nick J. Britell '03 said. "I have some bruises, but it's not a big deal. I had so much fun it didn't really matter...
...almost as painful as when Mike Dukakis put on the helmet, which fit him like a kettledrum, and climbed into the tank for a photo op. Gore didn't know the words but tried to fake it, and that was the least of his problems. You wanted to run up and tell him: Don't pretend this is the least bit comfortable for you. It only makes it worse...
...here (who can really shoot, incidentally) has printed "Pax Americana" on the back of his helmet. It's at once a noble and cynical thought, if you know how the Romans did it - by stamping out the little fires, and viciously. It can work if you need to rationalize what we're being trained to do, but of course we're not supposed to need that. The Army is a tool, just like the rifle, and it's the excellence, the honor, the individual braveries of combat that are supposed to drive us. Whether they occur at Normandy...