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> I saw the film clip too. This was a scene from the HBO > mini-series "Generation Kill." It was advertised as such. > Besides the "exploding bullet" issue, there were other > pieces of this clip which aren't realistic. Hollywood tries > to do what it can but rarely gets it totally right and often > needs to embellish things to make them more dramatic... > Nothing new. I believe that Ronald Reagan was hit with a round of this kind that probably did not explode because it first hit the armored limousine in which Reagan was riding, flattening down to the thinness of a dime and then ricocheted off and struck him under the left arm. But three others were hit and did in fact suffer from the affects. Perhaps because the pistol was only a .22 (if I remember aright), those effects were less disastrous to the other wounded men. Valerie Protopapas Valerie Protopapas <vaproto@optonline.net> ----- For subscription help, go to: http://www.h-net.org/lists/help/ To change your subscription settings, go to http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=h-war -----
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