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On the recordDecember 15, 1953
When you are trying to get a division ready for battle, and when a commander finds the need to go out and to try to start from the beginning to give this boy a fundamental reason why he is in uniform, it is pretty discouraging.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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