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Offline AlanS

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Just goes to show you don't know people: Dr Ruth, sniper
« on: July 21, 2014, 09:21:07 PM »
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dr-ruth-sniper

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Part of what attracted her to the role, Rupp said, was a little-known fact: Dr. Ruth was a trained sniper. “Not an act of heroism,” Westheimer clarified. “In 1947 and ’48, everybody in then-Palestine belonged to some group. I chose the group that was the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces. And I did not know that I had good aim. So when they did some selection, whatever, they put me in a group and they taught me how to put the Sten gun together. I shot the sky very nicely with my eyes closed.” Fortunately, she never had to put her skills to use. “I have no idea what the experience would be, if I had to show it. But I was a very good sniper. I could put the five bullets in the red circle. And I know how to throw hand grenades.”

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Re: Just goes to show you don't know people: Dr Ruth, sniper
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2014, 09:38:27 PM »
I met her once - a very spunky lady.

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Re: Just goes to show you don't know people: Dr Ruth, sniper
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2014, 06:49:21 AM »
One of those stories you read and are not surprised, at least for me.  You can usually tell the genuine from the fraud, she never came off as a fraud.  Oh, and that IDF forerunner?  That would be the Hahagana.

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Re: Just goes to show you don't know people: Dr Ruth, sniper
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2014, 01:01:34 PM »
I met her once - a very spunky lady.


Considering her particular medical profession, spunk was probably a big part of it indeed.
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Re: Just goes to show you don't know people: Dr Ruth, sniper
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2014, 02:38:07 PM »
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