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July 2nd, 2003
"Get down! Get down, Fox Company!", screamed 12 year old Lieutenant Michael
Mayfield,"Hold your positions!" He smiled as his company of fifth and sixth grade boys
dove down into their foxholes in the three-foot deep snow. Frozen snow-balls whistled
through the air above him like cold bullets. He pulled a walkie-talkie from a pocket
inside his coat and shouted into it,"This is Lt. Mayfield! I am pinned down with Fox
Company! A large group of 8th graders is suppressing us with mass ice spheres! Requesting
reinforcements! I need supersoakers!" There was a pause at the other end then a crackling
reply,"We're sorry, Lieutenant! We have no men near your current location! You must fall
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