> if you died from violence on the field, the most likely cause was "a horse fell on you". This is close to my grandfather's story. He was a Lithuanian Jew con

> if you died from violence on the field, the most likely cause was "a horse fell on you". This is close to my grandfather's story. He was a Lithuanian Jew conscripted into the Czar's army and somehow wound up on a horse. They released him after he got shot in the leg, which then killed the horse, which fell on and broke the other leg. I never got more of the story than that. It may have been then that he decided that immigrating to America was a good idea.