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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
- Thomas Paine ("The American Crisis")
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May 7
1867: VC won by Dr (Asst-Surg) Campbell Mallis Douglas, 24th (Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot (British Army), Island of Little Andaman, The Burma Campaign
1915: Lusitania torpedoed, 1198 lost
1945: Unconditional surrender of all German forces to the Allies, signed at Eisenhower's HQ at Rhiems
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