Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
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He was a great thundering paradox of a man.William Manchester
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
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Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
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Our Boeing 747 has been fleeing westward from darkened California, racing across the Pacific toward the sun, the incandescent eye of God, but slowly, three hours later than West Coast time, twilight gathers outside, veil upon lilac veil.
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