Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.
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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.William Manchester
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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As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.
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It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. . . . Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb.
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He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
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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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