It is a reminder that something I like to do could get me killed and that is not funny.

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And I hear Kristi in the background - I mean, Staff Sergeant David Marino took me out on the streets of Hit, and this is a man who kept me from getting killed in firefights.

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The tightly-laced leather boots emerging from the Flanders mud are the giveaway that the body being carefully unearthed by archaeologists in front of me is that of an Allied soldier, killed in World War I.

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What is more, it strikes me as perfectly possible that the overall welfare of a wild seal, suddenly killed on an ice floe, is better than the life endured by an intensively reared farm animal killed on a production line after being driven to an abattoir on a lorry.

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