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To their own shore came the world war.
35 Whelen
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An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
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I often imagine, had I been 22 years old in 1943, I would have joined the Army Air Corps. To have flown a P 51 in combat over Europe, Good God. I would have moved heaven and earth to get in that Mustang.
As they said, "We live in fame, go down in flame..." Sure, you might have gotten killed but at least, you got your name in the paper.
I could have seen myself working a machine gun in WW1.
But, God Forbid, don't put me in a submarine! I get claustrophobic just looking at these battle scenes. Thank God at age 22 I was 6-3 and 195, too big for the submarine. I couldn't even have left the port in that damn thing they would have put me in the military looney bin first.
Those guys, whether Krauts or Americans, who served in submarine duty, especially in WW1, were some real bad *.
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