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February 24, 2008
Marches
I go to McDonald's several days a week for breakfast and it isn't uncommon for me to run into a retired doctor while I'm there.
Not long ago he was telling me a story about his time in the service. He was giving physicals to the men and one rather large guy came through. The doc told him that even if he passed him on the physical he was going to get flagged for his weight, which was over 250 pounds.
The guy told the doc, "Well, I used to weigh under 100 pounds."
"When was that," asked the doctor.
"When I was in Bataan." And the he went on to say that sick guys died first, then the thin ones. The only ones who made it were the ones who started out heavy.
Posted by delmer at February 24, 2008 11:49 AM