Date:         Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:23:28 -0500
Reply-To:     "Horace K. Sawyer" <firestream@MINDSPRING.COM>
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From:         "Horace K. Sawyer" <firestream@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: 2000 DARWIN AWARDS]]
Comments: To: John Klun <jklun@GJ.NET>
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>5. According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was
>stabbed to death
>in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who was trying to prove that
>a knife could not
>penetrate the Flakvest Berrena was wearing.

         Hey, I always thought these things were fake, but I have first
hand knowledge of this one.  It did not happen in Dahlonega.  It happened
here in Ringgold, Georgia at a U.S. Military Rifle Range/Gunnery Training
Area.  The cadets were spending the weekend and were going to get to
wargame with the big boys.  The kids were getting restless in the barracks
and were apparently doing the normal horseplay and some to hand to hand
fake combat.  Things got out of hand, to put it mildly.  The poor kid was
wearing a kevlar vest, and his buddy apparently did a bayonet attack.  It
went right through.  My volunteer fire department answered the call.  Poor
kid bled to death quickly.
How would you like to have tell his mom.

HK