On Tue 20 May, oki_at_... wrote:
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> > I think it was WWII when the Swedes were using elk-drawn sleds to
> >remove casualties from the front line. There was an elk that was decorated
> >after pulling several unconscious soldiers more than 20 miles to the
> >hospital over rough terrain without direction with a broken leg. I think
> >the driver was killed in the explosion that injured the elk. The Elk was
> >given one of the highest honors the army had to give, and there were
> >pictures of the elk with a medal hanging off of its antlers on the front of
> >several newspapers.
> > The elk was subsequently captured and Hitler ordered it executed.
> >What a wanker.
> >
Hate spoil the party, but weren't wasn't Sweden nuetral during
the whole of WWII? Sweden was the place that Germany got most
of its iron ore from during WWII.
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