"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

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