As Confederate Yankee writes, this story about a US infantryman in Iraq carrying an iPod in his uniform's breast pocket that "saved the life of a soldier by slowing a bullet that hit him in the chest", is quite possibly an urban legend. As I wrote in the comments section under his blog post, it sounds remarkably like a high tech update of the story that the late James Doohan of Star Trek fame told of surviving D-Day.

Update And speaking of Doohan, like his old boss, he's finally made it to the final frontier.