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Is There a Difference Between Honor and War?

He fought his way through the entire, all of World War II from North Africa, Sicily, Italy, D-Day on the South Coast of France. His combat infantry, Lieutenant and a captain wrote just a ghastly number of letters to parents. He lost his entire platoon over and over again because they just kept getting chewed up. But he wasn't incapacitated, right? He was the mayor of Kenosha and he ran a bank.

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