"Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying."
"I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one."
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Source: Oliver North, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (1987). “Taking the stand: the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North”, Pocket
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