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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Not So Difficult Choice

A soldier undergoing training in Fort Benning, Georgia was one day put in a difficult situation.  He received a package from home containing cookies, one of those things that the trainees were not allowed to have in the campsite.  

After a roll call, the drill sergeant found out this soldier’s offense.  Therefore, the sergeant gave him a choice of throwing the cookies out or eating them while he did one-arm pushups.  To everyone’s surprise, he chose the latter.  As everyone watched in amazement, the soldier looked up and said through a mouthful of cookies, “This is a breeze compared to what my mother would do if she heard that I threw her cookies out.”

- Steve May, The Story File (Hendrickson, 2000)

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