World: . . . And a Bomb

In an epitaph on a grave in Italy, U.S. doughboys read this definitive description of the career of Peggy, a British Army mule.

"In memory of Peggy who in her lifetime kicked one brigadier, two colonels, four majors, ten captains, 24 lieutenants, 42 sergeants, 60 corporals, 436 other ranks and one bomb."

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