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FDR: And--again--that payment must be made with the life's blood of our sons.

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And--again--that payment must be made with the life's blood of our sons.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt reiterates that the cost of abandoning essential jobs is ultimately paid by soldiers' lives.

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