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  • Among the members of a platoon that he calls the Gravediggers, we meet Staff Sgt. Boondock and Sgt. Axel, who "routinely bantered like a married couple, on only the most trivial matters"; a Texan who spent eight years in college without getting a degree; and Private Das Boot, a "gangly German-American hell-bent on proving his mettle in battle."

    A Soldier's Story Bing West 2010

  • Among the members of a platoon that he calls the Gravediggers, we meet Staff Sgt. Boondock and Sgt. Axel, who "routinely bantered like a married couple, on only the most trivial matters"; a Texan who spent eight years in college without getting a degree; and Private Das Boot, a "gangly German-American hell-bent on proving his mettle in battle."

    A Soldier's Story Bing West 2010

  • Among the members of a platoon that he calls the Gravediggers, we meet Staff Sgt. Boondock and Sgt. Axel, who "routinely bantered like a married couple, on only the most trivial matters"; a Texan who spent eight years in college without getting a degree; and Private Das Boot, a "gangly German-American hell-bent on proving his mettle in battle."

    A Soldier's Story Bing West 2010

  • Then there was a motorcycle gang in Scottsdale called the Gravediggers.

    THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP JEFFERY DEAVER 2003

  • The Sunday Times journalists voted down that initiative at the eleventh hour by more than a hundred votes, but the 14 dissenters of the so-called Gravediggers' Club felt the result might have been different if I had given a lead.

    The Guardian World News Harold Evans 2011

  • The Sunday Times journalists voted down that initiative at the eleventh hour by more than a hundred votes, but the fourteen dissenters of the so-called Gravediggers' Club felt the result might have been different if I had given a lead.

    Reuters: Press Release Sir Harold Evans 2011

  • There is a glade in the woods where, once, gravediggers gathered of an evening when their day's digging was done, and so it is known as Gravediggers 'Glade.

    Hooting Yard 2008

  • Written by Lt. Matt Gallagher (Lt. G) during his deployment to Iraq from 2007-2008, it chronicled the day to day challenges and dangers faced by his platoon, a Stryker unit named "Gravediggers".

    Diary Of A Hollywood Refugee 2009

  • “The Gravediggers will take you to heaven,” she joked.

    Family Storms 2011

  • She would tell me that people go to the Gravediggers to see heaven.

    Family Storms 2011

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