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The Way Back

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Never Apologize, Mr.

John Wayne's character in 1949 film She War A Yellow Ribbon says never apologize. Apology is seen as a shaming ritual, he tells his subordinates. This was just four years after the US ended World War II by dropping two atomic bombs on Japanese cities.

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