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Gander the dog, 'sergeant' of the Royal Rifles of Canada in WW2. During the Battle of Hong Kong Gander twice helped fight off Japanese assaults before picking up a grenade thrown at wounded Canadian soldiers and charging enemy lines with it, losing his own life but saving several soldiers.

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During WWI, America's Mk 1 grenade was so difficult to use that it was often thrown unarmed. Enemies would then throw it back, this time properly armed.

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1. Robert Hubert, a French watchmaker, was hanged on the charge of starting the Great Fire of London in 1666. Hubert falsely confessed to have thrown a fire grenade through the window of a bakery, which in fact had no windows, even though he arrived in England two days after the fire had started.

2. Marjan, formerly Afghanistan's only lion, survived having three hand grenades thrown at him.

3. Jacklyn Lucas, a US Marine private who enlisted at 14 and won the Medal of Honor at 17. During a patrol in Iwo Jima, he was ambushed and had two grenades thrown at him. He grabbed them, buried them in the sand and threw himself over it. He survived, despite having 200 shards of metal in him.

4. About the sentencing of Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs for the murder of Gul Mudin, 15 years old, and two other Afghani Civilians. He was sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole after 10 years. Gul was working in his father's farm when he was reportedly thrown grenades and stripped.

5. Gander, a Newfoundland dog, fought alongside Canadian soldiers during the Battle of Hong Kong and sacrificed himself when he rushed the enemy with a thrown grenade.

6. Madonna recorded an anti-war music video for the title track of her 2003 Album protesting Iraq War with Iraqi children walking a fashion-show, water-cannons & a live grenade thrown into the hands of GWB that she bowed to pressure never releasing under immense post-9/11 nationalistic fervor.

7. The BEANO T-13 hand grenade, which was designed to be thrown like a baseball for American Troops in WWII, is believed to have injured more American soldiers than enemy troops due to premature detonation.

8. -- At the "Battle of Iwo Jima" in WWII, U.S. soldier John Willis, in retaliation, was able to throw back 8 hand grenades that had been thrown at him by Japanese soldiers. He was killed by a 9th grenade.