no good deed goes unpunished

[rone]

When Marine Lance Cpl. David Battle learned he'd either have to sacrifice his ring finger or the wedding band he wore, he told doctors at a field hospital in Iraq to cut off the finger.

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With his approval, doctors severed his finger, but somehow in the chaos that followed, they lost his ring.

<kanzen> odds are he's going to get divorced next year
<kanzen> his wife is probably cheating on him right now

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[vspope.livejournal.com]

My own wedding band is currently floating somewhere in the North Atlantic, having been ripped off my finger by the undertow of Rehoboth Beach a couple of summers ago, unless it's washed ashore since then.

My marriage is fine, though my wife was nigh-inconsolable on the day that it happened.