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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Quotation of the day for April 20, 2011
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Quotation of the Day for April 20, 2011
"It was a pretty good bayonet holder."
- Raymond Madonna, a U.S. Marine captain, describing in 1967 the only thing the M-16 rifle used by U.S. forces in Vietnam was good for. Quoted in The Gun by C. J. Chivers, a history of assault rifles.