“Oh, for the farm where a man is truly independent, and where he deals with fundamentals, where the changing seasons brings changed work, and a man is out of doors all the time. It is on the farm that a man can devote his life to his investment and see the improvement and growth from year to year…I enjoy thinking of such things and there is no doubt that I am a midwesterner through and through.”

—  Nile Kinnick

Letter to his father (June 29, 1942)

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