“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.” Oscar Wilde

“Yes, we even doubted his resolve to exterminate us. Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means? In the middle of the twentieth century!” Night by Elie Wiesel
The previous passage came from the memoirs of Elie Wiesel in Night. This memoir [...]

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“A Solider’s best friend, next to his rifle, is the postman.”
– Lt. Gen. Walt Boomer
During World War II mail carriers were able to carry single mail sacks which could now hold 150,000 one-page letters instead of the 37 mail bags needed for the same amount of traditional letters. And what [...]

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