If beer was involved I'd be even more skeptical.
Mark Roberts wrote:
>P. J. Alling wrote:
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>>I wouldn't call the person who told you the story a liar, but a certain
>>amount of embellishment is often the case. Sometimes to the extent that
>>the original story is changed beyond recognition, or entirely made up.
>>I've been told first person accounts of a Vietnam War story by two
>>different people. The stories were nearly identical. They both
>>couldn't be the same person, could they? Most probably they heard a
>>good story and passed it on with themselves as the protagonist. I'm not
>>saying thats the case here, but I'd take the story with a grain of salt
>>until I have independent confirmation. It wasn't delivered under oath
>>in court was it?
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>No. He was sitting at my kitchen table and we were talking about
>people he knew in school.
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