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(56,582 posts) Wed Oct 2, 2013, 01:17 AM Oct 2013

Happy birthday, Mohandas Gandhi

(It's little known, but Gandhi was a medic during the Zulu War and was decorated for bravery; this experience was formative in his rejection of violence and warfare.)