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You have overcome all enemies, save death, which we must all meet as our comrades who have gone before us have done, and submit.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “You have overcome all enemies, save death, which we must all meet as our comrades who have gone before us have done, and…”
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Sherman reflects on the inevitability of death and the shared experience of mortality.
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