“It has been said, and I find it true from personal experience, that it is easier to risk one's life on the battlefield than it is to perform customary humble and humdrum duties which, however, are just as necessary to winning the war.”

—  Soong Mei-ling

Address to the U.S. House of Representatives (February 18, 1943)

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