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Old 04-09-2016, 10:15 AM   #1
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Gregg remembered, “My brother said, ‘I’ll tell you what we’re gonna do. Just shoot a bullet through your foot.’ I thought he was joking. He wasn’t.” So the night before Gregg’s physical examination, Duane threw him a “foot-shootin’ party,” plying him with speed and whiskey, and inviting over some friends and some girls. Gregg painted a target on his left moccasin. “I didn’t want to hurt myself,” Gregg said. “The long bones in your foot come to a V, and I wanted to hit it right there so it would crack two of them but not really upset anything permanently.”

Faced with the actual act of shooting himself, however, Gregg understandably had second thoughts–but Duane wouldn’t let him back down, calling him “chickenshit” and saying “I invited these nice ladies over here to see a foot-shootin’ and you’re going to let them down?” So Gregg slammed down some more whiskey and called an ambulance. As soon as he could hear the sirens–bang!–he pulled the trigger. Many musicians shoot themselves in the foot metaphorically, but Gregg had pulled off the rare stunt of doing it literally.

“I was bleeding quite a bit because the speed and liquor had my blood pressure going,” Gregg said. In the rush to the hospital, he and Duane forgot the target he had painted on the moccasin–so Duane had to sneak back into the operating room and grab the mangled shoe back, lest somebody report the Allmans to the government. The next day, Gregg showed up at the induction center with a huge bandage and crutches–he was quickly disqualified. Like both Bush and Cheney, Gregg Allman had found a way to avoid Vietnam.

 
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Old 04-09-2016, 04:13 PM   #3
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and the great patriot lived on to publicly support other great patriots who sent thousands to their deaths overseas

 
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Old 04-09-2016, 04:17 PM   #4
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my dad avoided the draft by enlisting

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Old 04-10-2016, 10:05 AM   #5
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Greg allman looks like they guy in high school that carried ninja throwing stars.

 
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