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Watch This Marine Hardly Move at All as Lightning Hits the White House

August 27, 2021Matt White
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Screenshot from Twitter.

I flinched more than he did, and I was just watching on my phone.




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Matt White
Matt White

Matt White is a former senior editor for Coffee or Die Magazine. He was a pararescueman in the Air Force and the Alaska Air National Guard for eight years and has more than a decade of experience in daily and magazine journalism.

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