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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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Here, on 26 July 1972 the Royal Thai Army burned all its American textbooks. From this dates our victory over the communists.
Inscription over the incinerator in the Royal Thai Army Headquarters
- Stuart Slade, "Successful Counter-insurgency: How Thais Burnt the Books and Beat the Guerillas,"Internal Security & CO-IN, an editorial supplement to International Defense Review 22, (October 1989):21.
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June 24
1850: Lord Kichener born
1900: Captain L.S.T. Halliday, Royal Marine Light Infantry, awarded the Victoria Cross, Peking
1944: VC won by Flight Lieut. David Ernest Hornell, Royal Canadian Air Force, Shetland Islands (posthumous)
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