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“If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.” Brig Gen Robin Olds USAF, Officer Commanding No. 1 (Fighter) Squadron RAF February–October 1949
“If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too.”
― Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
― Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
“The Kaleidoscope has been shaken. The Pieces are in flux. Soon, They will SETTLE again. Before They do, let us RE-ORDER this world around us!!!”
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“Tyrants tell stories only about themselves because history for them begins and ends with their own insatiable appetites.”
― Unthinkable: Think You'll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude – A Memoir of Resilience
― Unthinkable: Think You'll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude – A Memoir of Resilience
“Georgia. Human rights groups launched investigations into Russia’s reports of pitiless atrocities. It was fake news, but it took time to prove its falsity, and while the fact-checkers tried to disprove one story, the Kremlin put out two more. Russia proved that it could use television and the internet as weapons, launching barrages of disinformation and demonization—aiming, as one analyst put it, to “dismiss the critic, distort the facts, distract from the main issue, and dismay the audience.”
― The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020
― The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020
“The moral values and integrity of our nation, and the long, difficult, fraught history of our efforts to uphold them at home and abroad, are the test of every American generation. Will we act in this world with respect for our founding conviction that all people have equal dignity in the eyes of God and should be accorded the same respect by the laws and governments of men? That is the most important question history ever asks of us.”
― The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
― The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
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