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Ruben Blades

"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."

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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."

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"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."

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"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."

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"Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor."

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"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"

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"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them."

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"Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries."

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"Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime."

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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

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"When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it."

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"I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe."
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