"Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying."
"All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service."
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Source: The Heroes of 2011 by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. November 11, 2011.
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