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“[Someone in the POW camp] said, ‘Look down there at the main gate!’, and the American flag was flying! We went berserk, we just went berserk! We were looking at the goon tower and there’s no goons there, there are Americans up there! And we saw the American flag, I mean—to this day I start to well up when I see the flag." -Sam Lisica, former prisoner of war, WWII ~ The Things Our Fathers Saw, Vol. III”

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Book:The War In The Air 2, Volume III Book Two
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“We were scorning the symbol of hypocrisy and hope. Many of us had only begun to realize in Africa that the Stars and Stripes was our flag and our only flag, and that knowledge was almost too painful to bear. We could physically return to Africa, find jobs, learn languages, even marry and remain on African soil all our lives, but we were born in the United States and it was the United States which had rejected, enslaved, exploited, then denied us. It was the United States which held the graves of our grandmothers and grandfathers. It was in the United States, under conditions too bizarre to detail, that those same ancestors had worked and dreams of “a better day, by and by.” . . . I shuddered to think that while we wanted that flag dragged into the mud and sullied beyond repair, we also wanted it pristine, its white stripes, summer cloud white. Watching it wave in the breeze of a distance made us nearly choke with emotion. It lifted us up with its promise and broke our hearts with its denial.”

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Book:All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
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“Melihatnya duduk, terpekur sendirian di atas kursi besi tempa di pinggiran jalan yang nyaris lengang itu telah jadi momen yang tak akan pernah aku lupakan. Sebab saat itulah, hatiku tersentuh oleh pesona kecantikan yang alami. Bukan oleh karena seri wajahnya atau anggun gerak gerik tubuhnya, melainkan oleh apa yang tak tertangkap oleh mata namun mampu menggetarkan hati. Pada saat itulah, entah untuk keberapa kali, aku merasakan lagi perasaan yang dulu pernah aku rasakan. Bagaimana aku jatuh cinta kepadanya untuk pertama kali.”

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