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TIL: Of MSG Roy Benavidez who was shot in the face, head, right leg, stomach, thigh, bayoneted, and hit in the back by grenade fragments during one of his tours of Vietnam was about to be placed into a body bag when he spit in the doctors face to signal that he was still alive.

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