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From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: re: Reed and WWII
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 03:01:00 EST
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>/***** uokvax:net.comics / utzoo!henry /  1:36 am  Feb  9, 1985 */
>> ... Wolverine has never been said to have served in
>> WWII, though [Claremont was thinking about it]
>
>Wolverine has explicitly referred to having experienced "that winter
>under Monte Cassino", or something along those lines (my X-Men back

I believe the reference is from the X-Men Annual (#3?) where the
X-Men go to hell, and Nightcrawler discovers his lover is his
sister (by adoption, of course!).

In X-Men #140 Wolverine says that he has been both a soldier and
an agent.  I firmly believe that he did see action in WW 2, and
his mutant healing factor will let him live a long, long time.
In the marvelous "Days of Future Past" story in X-Men #141-142,
30 years from now he's just a little gray around the temples,
with a few more lines in his face.

I also think Logan is the son of Sabertooth.  Originally there wa
an idea to have them fight to the death (over sufficient cause,
such as Sabertooth killing Mariko or similar provocation) and
have Logan kill his father ON PANEL, no mistake.  This probably
won't happen until Shooter leaves.  Incredibly enough, Shooter
has said that Wolverine has *never* killed anyone, surely one of
the most asinine statements ever made.  A very interesting
article in Amazing Heroes points out that ALL of the X-Men have
killed, and so what?

	"He made his choice.  He'll have to live - or die -
with it.  I never use my claws on someone who hadn't tried to
kill me first.  I call that self defense."

		Carl Rigney
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