Address in Madison at the University of Wisconsin
10/13/1948
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I hope I will always deserve it.
The course of action you recommend has my approval.
It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time...
This order shall supersede Executive Order No. 9277 of December 3, 1941, entitled 'Award of the Purple Heart to Persons ...