May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
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