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All American Week. Ah, the memories. Painful memories. That Division review is probably the best recruiting tool in Special Forces' arsenal, at least in the Fort Bragg area.
I will say that meeting the old timers made all of the headaches worthwhile. I remember being accosted by one gentleman in his 80's, dressed in his original issue paratrooper jacket and still looking fit enough to pass a jump school physical. He told me that his last four jumps in the Army were Sicily, Salerno, Normandy, and Holland.
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"I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt...and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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