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Summer Lee: Discipline and war readiness shouldn't have nothing to do with human decency.

On the recordJuly 28, 2020
Discipline and war readiness shouldn't have nothing to do with human decency.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the need for human decency in military culture.

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