Take a Bow, GI!

“Take a Bow, GI – take a bow, little guy.”

“You had what it took and you gave it – and each of you has a hunk of rainbow round your helmet… [You] were tougher in the end than the Brownshirt bully-boys – and smarter, too. [For] without whipping a priest, burning a book or slugging a Jew, without corralling a girl into a brothel or bleeding a child for plasma

– you won.”

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“What have we learned out of this war? – we’ve learned that our east coast is the west coast of the Rhine – and that the defense of Seattle begins in Shanghai.”

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