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I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

— Roald Dahl

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.

— Tom Stoppard

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

— Richard Francis Burton

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

— Manute Bol

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

— Steve Buscemi

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

— Lester B. Pearson

After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

— Jesse Ventura

✗Opposing Perspectives

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

— Scilla Elworthy

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

— Rick Mercer

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

— George McGovern