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Good morning frank. This is Howard
Pyle, reporting for the Valley National

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Bank to the people of Arizona on the
pacific war. First, a friendly

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greeting from fred Macpherson. Thank
you Howard! Good morning friends.

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now for Howard piles, transcribed
report from the Pacific for this morning.

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Now for greetings from the 25th
Division, the Tropical Lightning Division

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whose fame probably is most
prominently associated with the Lady Pass. I

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believe. That's right, isn't it?
Lieutenant Fuller. Yes sir, that is the

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25th division has had a number of
Arizona boys in its ranks. Some of them

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have not been able to come through
sufficiently well to return home

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someday. My trip to the santa Barbara
cemetery gave me an opportunity to a

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respect to some of the boys. The
memories of those boys who will not

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return. The lady passed was one of the
severe ist campaigns of the entire

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luzon operation. And during that
campaign Several hours on the boys fell

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associated with the 25th Division
Today. I'm glad that we can bring you

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greetings from at least three of the
commissioned officers of this fine

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group and I'm sure you're going to
welcome the personal comments and the

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proxy greeting that will be passed on
by one of the lieutenants for the

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benefit of another who couldn't be
here. We'll visit first with lieutenant

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Kenneth J. Fuller, 66 West Main Mesa
Arizona. His wife is mrs jean fuller

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and she lives at the address I have
just given Kenneth. You won't mind if

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I call you by your first name. It'll
be a little bit more chummy for me.

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How long have you been away from home?
I've been overseas. 19 months. Have

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you seen your wife any time recently
that he is prior to that immediately

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or were you on a furlough before you
came on? And I wasn't allowed no

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fellow prior to coming overseas. That
isn't good is it? No. Then how long

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has it been since you saw your wife?
Well I thought the one day I'm away

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when I stopped by, flew from Louisiana
to the airport of embarkation

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stopped over one day then on the way
over any Children one. Yes. Have you

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seen the youngster one? That's fine.
Well some of the boys haven't had

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that luck and I feel sorry for them
always because it's really pretty

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depressing to have a nice looking
child at home. I never have had the

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opportunity to see it. What do you do
with the division Lieutenant at the

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present time? Executive Officer of
Company B What can you tell me about

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the bullet fast operation? Was it as
rough as the stories about it

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indicated? And I believe it is robert.
They tell me that the Lady Pass was

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just about as weird and experience as
any division was ever asked to one

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to go, casualties were heavy and it
was a long fight. How long were you in

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there before you managed to clean it
up? No, it took us almost two months

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through the entire hills to get bloody
past security. So I suppose for the

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25th division, that will be one of the
highlights in its history, I

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believe. So. A little bit of fighting
we did in the central plains. Have

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you had any other campaign since? You
can? No, sir. This is my first

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campaign. What did you do before you
came into the service Kenneth? I was

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going to school in Los Angeles at the
time. I came in specializing in what

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counting. I came in with 158th
infantry and they came and did. Well, it's

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my plan to visit 158 10th century in a
few days now. And if I see any of

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your friends down there, I'll pass a
good word on for you. I received a

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letter from General to till the other
day in which he expressed a great

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deal of interest in this transcribed
series and one of the lines impressed

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me very much. He says when I hear some
of the boys I knew and some of the

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kids as he put it in my new, it's kind
of a lump in my throat to realize

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what they're accomplishing out there.
And I only wish I could be with him.

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What would you like to say to your
wife and family and friends at home?

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Go right ahead as though it were just
a personal message between the two

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of you or three of you as the case may
be. Well, that's how much I can't

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say except that I am expecting maybe
to make it home here in a short time.

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The whole point system might catch me
eventually. Um, several times I've

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had pretty close calls. Well, I
expected maybe I didn't live. Wouldn't be

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able to see you again. But it seems as
always, always lucky enough present

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time do all my campaigns. No Purple
Hearts yet. I don't expect anything.

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Don't want any. Even though they do
make another five points on this

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discharge. How many points do you have
Kenneth and I have 96. Well we

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won't be asking for any points by the
purple heart system. And will we

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know I suspect that your wife has been
doing a lot of hoping for you and

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your friends have been doing a lot of
hoping for you. I don't think I've

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ever been through a period in history
and men and women have spent more

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time praying sincerely for the welfare
of the persons of their family and

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the families of others. So lieutenant,
if you have come through it, I

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suspect that you can thank a very
kindly providence for having taken good

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care of you. Yes sir. I believe I can.
Thank you Kenneth very much. It's

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been a pleasure to visit with you.
I'll interview this next boy now and

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we'll see what he can add to our
knowledge of the 25th division. Thank you.

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That was lieutenant Kenneth J. Fuller
606 West Main Mesa. Arizona. The

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wife is mrs jean. Fuller of the same
address.

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Our next interviewee from the 25th
Division. The Tropical Lightning

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Division is Lieutenant Hiram H. Zoo
Pink. Is that right, Is up next.

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That's up nick. All right now I'm
corrected. 4 59 North Norris of Tucson.

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And the mother and father Mr and mrs
m. Zucchini. No wife. Lieutenant, no

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wife sir. Any prospects? Yes sir. That
is very good. Look right at the

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microphone as we talk. It'll make your
voice sound a little more natural

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to the folks. Let's talk about the
prospect. What's the name? Her name is.

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Sue means. And where does she live?
Texas? Down in texas? Huh? Black hair

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, no brunette, sandy blonde. I see,
but a very lovely girl. Ah yes, sir.

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She writing regularly quite. Yes, sir.
What do you mean a lieutenant while

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you were in training? Yes, sir, I did.
I'm formally attacked the star

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officer and I'm now in the infantry as
you know. And while I was down in

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Texas, I had met her back in 43. And
since have been transferred into the

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infantry as the infantry needs an
awful lot of officers, you can well

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understand. And that was where I met
her while I was down in camp hood.

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Texas. What does that mean? You're
going to become a Texan? No, sir,

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that's fine. Although there are lots
of good things to be said about texas.

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Beginning with your prospective bride.
Right, what did you do in Arizona

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before you came into the service
Lieutenant? Well, I worked for a

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affiliated with a large manufacturing
concern, building materials, roofing

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and insulation. It was an english
concern. And they were not affiliated.

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However, in Tucson, I see. Well, what
do you hear from the folks? Good

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news. Yes, sir, I hear from the folks
quite often. They're probably

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wondering why I don't write a little
bit more often myself gets a little

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hard at times to get your mail out
when you want to ride it the time you

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feel the urge to write and actually
get it down to get the letter written.

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And then later on when you don't have
the urge, you might have a couple

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of spare minutes and then something
will stop you. But I hear from the

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folks quite regularly, Mail is a very
important factor for all men

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overseas. What would you like to say
to them directly in this case?

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Well actually, I'd like to let them
know that I'm fine. I've been lucky

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myself and Sammy lieutenant fuller. I
don't have any purple hearts and I

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don't wish to ever be awarded one and
I feel fine and incidentally just

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mention it folks. I saw kurt yesterday
and he's feeling a lot better

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my regards to everybody and I'm pretty
sure I'll be able to make it back.

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You have a greeting here from someone
suppose you offer that

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I have a greeting from a buddy of mine
who was in the same battalion. I'm

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in the third battalion of the 161
Infantry in the 25th Division and

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Lieutenant Ambos, Lieutenant Arnold
Ambos who was unable to make it down

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here with me, gave me this message to
give to his folks and wife his

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messages to Mrs am Ambos Globe Arizona
and mr and mrs a Ambos of

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inspiration. Arizona And I quote,
hello, d mom and dad. It was a tough

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fight, but we won. I wish I could
deliver this personally. But duty

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prevents me from leaving. My thoughts
are constantly of home and you and

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all and I'm hoping we may all be
together soon. My love to you all, Arnold

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unquote. Incidentally, I might add
that I've been with Lieutenant Ambrose

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awhile. He looks fine. He feels fine
and there's no reason to worry on his

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account. Thank you very much.
Lieutenant zapping for uh is up next. Pardon

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me, I'll get it right after a while
for not only your own greeting, but

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likewise, the greeting, Lieutenant
Ambos. Will you carry back to him our

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best wishes and the hope that before
we have to close this series, in the

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pacific that we'll have a chance to
interview him personally. I certainly

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will. Friend. That winds up our
broadcast, our first broadcast concerning

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the 25th division. We've interviewed
Lieutenant Kenneth J. Fuller of Mesa

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and Lieutenant Hiram H. Sputnik of
Tucson with a personal greeting from

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Lieutenant Arnold Ambos of Globe
Arizona until time for our next broadcast.

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This is Howard Pyle transferring you
to brad Mcpherson. Thank you Howard

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! You know, a few people, especially
the housewives realize how great a

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share in winning our victory belongs
to the american hope in particular to

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the kitchen. During the war. Kitchen
fighters saved waste fats observed

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government food rationing sought out.
Tasty meat substitutes and through

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it all guarded the health of the
family with well balanced meals today as

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America starts the battle to win the
peace. A large amount of honor will

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again go deservedly to the cooperating
woman in millions of american

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kitchen. She is asked to continue
saving waste fats and turning them into

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her market man for red points. She's
asked to observe the remaining food

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restrictions and to be careful not to
pay more than ceiling prices. And

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it's the woman who saves most of the
waste paper that still needed. It's

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the faithful woman who has and will
continue putting her budget savings

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into family victory bonds. The
housewives of America helped to win the war.

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They will now help to win a successful
and enduring peace.

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The Japs have resumed their mask of
injured innocence. They're talking of

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plans for a new way of life, a new
civilization based on peaceful pursuits.

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They're going to try to make us
believe that the most important courses

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in the Imperial War College will be
ones in flower arrangement and the

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care and treatment of japanese samurai
swords, which they told us

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yesterday aren't weapons at all, but
objects of art and antiquity. It

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would seem to me that the Japanese
have picked up very poor psychological

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time to come up with this twaddle a
very poor time indeed, as we're

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liberating war prisoners from the hell
holds the Japs called internment

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camps. The appalling disclosures about
the treatment of aligned prisoners

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of war have started a wave of
revulsion throughout the United States. The

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little men of Nippon certainly outdid
themselves in inflicting torture and

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unnecessary hardships on our men. It
was not the kind of cruelty motivated

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by revenge that we might have been
able to understand. It was cold,

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calculated oriental sadism at its
worst. Well, americans aren't the kind

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of crow over a beaten enemy. I need
not point out what would have happened

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to you and to me if you mash, it had
been able to dictate the peace in the

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White House. But no, we're generous,
were generous to a fault. We forget

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too easily and too soon for the sake
of peace in the world to come. Please

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, let's not forget too soon this time.
Let's re educate those misguided

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sons of Heaven. Let's do a thorough
job of it. Even if it takes 100 years

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or maybe 200 years Now, until tomorrow
morning at 7:45. When Howard Pyle

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will again report for the Valley
National Bank to the people of Arizona,

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direct from the Pacific. This is Fred
Macpherson speaking. The Valley

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National Bank is a member of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and

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