NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/lang/ada/3700

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From: [e-mail] (Frank Manning)
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Subject: Re: Gunslingers
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Date: 16 Dec 92 04:31:29 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
(Gregory Aharonian) writes:

>Finally, after the soldier threw Chester into the clock, it cost more tax
>dollars to pay for fixing the clock. Of course no one found out who the
>soldier was, they never stick around long enough to take responsibility for
>the cost of fixing clocks. Last I heard, the soldier (I think he was a
>sergeant named York) got a job at the Supplies, Arms, Indians and Cowboys
>stores that always seem to set up shops outside the forts.

Well, the historical records are not entirely clear on this subject. A few
historians maintain Sgt York was in fact Sgt York Manning, a chronic
malcontent who had recently been transferred to Fort Zemeckis from Fort
Lowell, Arizona Territory.

There was evidence that before he could be arrested on the charge of
assaulting a civilian, Manning went berserk and threw himself off the
Eastwood Ravine Bridge to avoid listening to any more religious wars about
firearm safety.

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