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What happens when you lie and use others to get what you want? It comes back to bite you in the butt is what. In the story “Defender of the Faith” the character Grossbart is taught this. Grossbart uses his Father, his friends, Larry Fishbein and Mickey Halpern, and Sergeant Nathan Marx. He also lies to Sergeant Marx. Grossbart first uses Sgt. Marx to get out of the G.I. Parties that occur on Friday nights at the Camp Crowder. When Sgt. Marx gives an order that “Jewish personnel who want to attend services this evening are to fall out in front of the orderly room at 1900, by order of Captain Barrett,” Grossbart believes he can go even further. He forges his father’s signature on a letter to Congressm