Part of this all too familiar story is an incredibly strong pull to discuss policies like gun control or more accessible mental health care that before the traumatic event concerned very few, however impassioned those few were.

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But Hickok knew better than to try to pull the trigger on a man whose gun was already drawn.

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In an attempt to pull a wounded man to safety, Dole was hit by German machine-gun fire that shattered his right shoulder and mangled his arm.

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