“When dictators enslave their own people and seek to impose their anti-democratic ideology upon others, when evil seeks power, men and women of good will must set aside their own differences of opinion and stand together and fight – including those who hate war.”

“German’s war diary goes public,” Washington Times, UPI News, March 25, 2005.
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