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February 16, 2010

Marine Walks Away From Shot to Helmet

It is hard to know whether Monday was a very bad day or a very good day for Lance Cpl. Andrew Koenig.

 

On the one hand, he was shot in the head. On the other, the bullet bounced off him.

 

In one of those rare battlefield miracles, an insurgent sniper hit Lance Cpl. Koenig dead on in the front of his helmet, and he walked away from it with a smile on his face.

 

"I don't think I could be any luckier than this," Lance Cpl. Koenig said two hours after the shooting.

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