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SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. – You might think that in America, everyone loves the Troops! But that’s not the case, because this vending machine won’t take challenge coins as payment. Wow.
“I literally killed someone to get this coin,” said Sgt. Craig Mutter, a special forces medic. “I think that should get me a Milky Way.”
It doesn’t, Craig. This vending machine only wants small coins with pictures of presidents on them, not giant coins that you have earned.
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