The serviceman, age 23, suffered wounds to the neck when the assailant attacked him from behind with a knife or boxcutter as he patrolled the capital's La Defense neighborhood.
Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, said a pocketknife can be just as deadly as a boxcutter, like the ones the hijackers used.
Back in my kitchen, I unrolled the meat and scored the rind using a box-cutter, making the lines as close-together as I had the patience for, aiming for about a half inch apart.