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"“…General Allen went over there crossed the line to meet with the Russians. He and a General from the Russians they had a big night. They tried to drink each other under the table. I think Terry beat him”
On May 7th, Allen received word that…that…the German high command had signed the unconditional surrender of all the German forces in Europe….The following morning brought the official VE-day" — Jan 19, 2025 10:30PM
"“…General Allen went over there crossed the line to meet with the Russians. He and a General from the Russians they had a big night. They tried to drink each other under the table. I think Terry beat him”
On May 7th, Allen received word that…that…the German high command had signed the unconditional surrender of all the German forces in Europe….The following morning brought the official VE-day" — Jan 19, 2025 10:30PM
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“too great considerateness borders on cowardice, and cowardice in the face of the enemy is punished severely.”
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“Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.”
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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