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I made it from the pin of a hand grenade - from the first grenade I ever used in training.
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The speaker says they made something from the pin of a hand grenade—the first grenade they ever used in training. The wording highlights the pin as a physical keepsake or material, but it does not identify what “it” was. The meaning is therefore limited to describing where that object came from.
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