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Nile Kinnick correspondence, September-November 1942
1942-09-28: Page 02
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be back; I felt all these things and was at peace, even though at times I appeared restless and impatient to do something, or say something momentous during my last leave before action. I hope you people realize how proud I am of the spirit and sacrifice you are showing in the face of this war. You have raised us boys under the solemn edict that there shall never be any compromise with evil, that principle must always be supported regardless of the odds, that the way is through, not around. And now you are meeting the supreme test with consummate courage. You are sending Ben and me off to battle with no display of the heroic or the dramatic, and
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be back; I felt all these things and was at peace, even though at times I appeared restless and impatient to do something, or say something momentous during my last leave before action. I hope you people realize how proud I am of the spirit and sacrifice you are showing in the face of this war. You have raised us boys under the solemn edict that there shall never be any compromise with evil, that principle must always be supported regardless of the odds, that the way is through, not around. And now you are meeting the supreme test with consummate courage. You are sending Ben and me off to battle with no display of the heroic or the dramatic, and
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