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“Just like when men dueled with swords or pistols to defend their honor--whatever that is--something is wrong with boys that they have to keep fighting in wars generation after generation. They think they will triumph gloriously like a statue of a general in a city park. Instead they come home in pieces.”

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Book:Peace Redemption: A Novel

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