>>>I still don't approve of the death sentence, but if a case could ever be made for it, I suppose this is it.
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>>>The weirdest part of all this is that, not content to sentence him to death, they really got down to it and went even further when he was "additionally sentenced to a dishonorable discharge, total forfeitures and reduction to Private E-1." Man, they must really have been angry
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>>So I suppose leave to go home for Thanksgiving would be out of the question ?
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>They'll still probably have to let him have a taxpayer supplied sex change so it can die as the real it.

From the "Riva i druzhi" (book about growing in Istra, where they have a large Italian minority and the language is full of borrowed words on both sides) - an old conservative (aka fascist, then) is about to die, and as the family gathers around his bed, he utters his last wish: "get me a titovka cap with a red star on it". "But why - you hate them!" "So one of theirs will die..."