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The Worst Job of the Lot, the Worse Job
I remember going to the Reichswald Cemetery and seeing that, you know, Lieutenant Reese, whatever his name was, to survive one day in battle with the German Rangers who were being killed. And he's essentially... He's religious, he's a pacifist. And yet he finds himself as a platoon commander. As you said, the hardest... The worst job of the lot, the hardest job. And you're nineteen. I know, I know. That's so absurd. But he's still thinking my son Ned is being kind of ludicrously young. You need young people because even the fittest find this basically too exhausting. By the time you're that much older, you
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