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Bra stops New Year's bullet
One woman discovered on New Year's Eve that her bra could do more than lift and support when the impact of a falling bullet was blunted by the bra strap on her left shoulder. Debbie Bingham, 46, an Atlanta resident visiting family in St Petersburg, Florida, was ringing in the New Year when she felt a sharp pain. Someone had fired a gun into the air and as the bullet fell back to earth, Bingham was struck. The bullet was removed when doctors cut the bullet from the strap.
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Army apologizes to families
The army said on Friday that it would apologize to the families of deceased and wounded officers that it mistakenly encouraged to re-enlist via letters sent out late last month. About 75 families of deceased officers and 200 families of wounded officers received such letters sent to more than 5,100 officers between Dec. 26 and 28, the Army said in a statement. "Unfortunately, the database used to address those letters contained names of officers who were killed in action or wounded," the Army said. "Army personnel officials are contacting those officers' families now to personally apologize for erroneously sending the letters." The names of these soldiers had been removed from the database, but an earlier version of the list was mistakenly used, the Army said.
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