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Hansen: POW survivor from WWII wasn't afraid of anything, except 'I do'
http://www.omaha.com/article/20131001/NEWS/131009947/1685#hansen-pow-survivor-from-wwii-wasn-t-afraid-of-anything-except-i-do
By Matthew Hansen
The man has parachuted into Nazi gunfire.
He has survived six months as a prisoner of war, slept with 19 other POWs in a cell no bigger than a walk-in closet, slurped up soup infested with maggots for dinner.
His mother named him Salvatore, but everyone calls him Sam, and he is the scrappiest little Italian you will ever meet.
Except for one thing. For decades, only a single thing made his leather-tough stomach do somersaults and turned his sturdy legs to jelly.
FULL story at link.
